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Humphry Davy

Also known as Sir Humphy Davy, Sir Humphry Davy

British chemist

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Humphry Davy was a male artist and person from the United Kingdom. He was born in 1778 and died in 1829. His works include *Decomposition of the Fixed Alkalies and Alkaline Earths*, *Salmonia - or, Days of Fly Fishing with Some Account of the Habits of Fishes Belonging to the Genus Salmo*, *Conversations on Chemistry...*, and *Elements of Agricultural Chemistry*.

He is recognized in the Royal Society collection and the American Academy Arts Sciences collection. His name appears in a Commons gallery and category. His works are referenced by 721 other encyclopedia articles.

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Person · Open Library

Works: 9

Top works

Conversations on chemistry, in which the elements of that science are familiarly explained and illustrated by experiments and plates
Decomposition of the Fixed Alkalies and Alkaline Earths
Salmonia - Days of Fly Fishing. in a Series of Conversations. with Some Account of the Habits of Fishes Belonging to the Genus Salmo
Salmonia - or, Days of Fly Fishing with Some Account of the Habits of Fishes Belonging to the Genus Salmo
Conversations on Chemistry...

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: United Kingdom
Active from: 1945-12-30
Active to: 2012-02-29

Discography

Official site Discogs

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 3
Total plays: 3

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

Sequential deposition as a route to high-performance perovskite-sensitized solar cells
· 2013 · cited 9,144x
Lead Iodide Perovskite Sensitized All-Solid-State Submicron Thin Film Mesoscopic Solar Cell with Efficiency Exceeding 9%
· 2012 · cited 7,511x
THE WIDE-FIELD INFRARED SURVEY EXPLORER (WISE): MISSION DESCRIPTION AND INITIAL ON-ORBIT PERFORMANCE
· 2010 · cited 7,215x
Conversion of light to electricity by cis-X2bis(2,2'-bipyridyl-4,4'-dicarboxylate)ruthenium(II) charge-transfer sensitizers (X = Cl-, Br-, I-, CN-, and SCN-) on nanocrystalline titanium dioxide electrodes
· 1993 · cited 5,619x
Osteoprotegerin Ligand Is a Cytokine that Regulates Osteoclast Differentiation and Activation
· 1998 · cited 4,435x

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Quotes

“A sacred spark created by his breath,  The immortal mind of man his image bears;A spirit living 'midst the forms of death,  Oppressed, but not subdued, by mortal cares.”
“Every new discovery may be considered as a new species of manufacture, awakening moral industry and sagacity, and employing, as it were, new capital of mind.”
“Fortunately science, like that nature to which it belongs, is neither limited by time nor by space. It belongs to the world, and is of no country and of no age. The more we know, the more we feel our ignorance; the more we feel how much remains unknown; and in philosophy, the sentiment of the Macedonian hero can never apply, — there are always new worlds to conquer.”
“I envy no quality of the mind or intellect in others; not genius, power, wit, nor fancy; but, if I could choose what would be most delightful, and, I believe, most useful to me, I should prefer a firm religious belief to every other blessing.”
“Nothing is so fatal to the progress of the human mind as to suppose that our views of science are ultimate; that there are no mysteries in nature; that our triumphs are complete, and that there are no new worlds to conquer.”
“The delight which Mr Davy experienced when he first saw the minute globules of (the new metal) burst through the crust of potash, and take fire as they entered the atmosphere, was witnessed by his relative and assistant Mr . 'He could not contain his joy—he actually danced about the room in ecstatic delight, and some little time was required for him to compose himself sufficiently to continue the experiment.'”

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Works in European collections

7 objects attributed to Humphry Davy, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

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Encyclopedic overview

Sir Humphry Davy, 1st Baronet (17 December 1778 – 29 May 1829) was a British chemist and inventor who invented the Davy lamp and a very early form of arc lamp. He is also remembered for isolating, by using electricity, several elements for the first time: potassium and sodium in 1807 and calcium, strontium, barium, magnesium and boron the following year, as well as for discovering the elemental nature of chlorine and iodine. Davy also studied the forces involved in these separations, inventing the new field of electrochemistry. He is credited with discovering clathrate hydrates.

In 1799, he experimented with nitrous oxide and was astonished at how it made him laugh. He nicknamed it "laughing gas" and wrote about its potential as an anaesthetic to relieve pain during surgery. Davy was a baronet, President of the Royal Society (PRS), Member of the Royal Irish Academy (MRIA), a founder member and Fellow of the Geological Society of London, a member of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall, and a member of the American Philosophical Society. Berzelius called Davy's 1806 Bakerian Lecture "On Some Chemical Agencies of Electricity" "one of the best memoirs which has ever enriched the theory of chemistry."

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