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Humphry Davy

1778 - 1829

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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. Davy is also credited with discovering clathrate hydrates. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Humphry Davy is the 41st most popular chemist (down from 27th in 2019), the 225th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 180th in 2019) and the 6th most popular British Chemist.

Humphry Davy was a chemist who discovered the element of sodium and invented the Davy lamp.

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Among chemists, Humphry Davy ranks 41 out of 602. Before him are Henri Moissan, Richard Willstätter, F. Sherwood Rowland, Linus Pauling, Paul Karrer, and Tadeusz Reichstein. After him are Richard Adolf Zsigmondy, Alfred Werner, Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, Adolf von Baeyer, Fritz Pregl, and Venkatraman Ramakrishnan.

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Among people born in 1778, Humphry Davy ranks 5. Before him are Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, Marie Thérèse of France, Louis Bonaparte, and Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden. After him are José de San Martín, Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, Augustin Pyramus de Candolle, Giovanni Battista Belzoni, Bernardo O'Higgins, and Clemens Brentano. Among people deceased in 1829, Humphry Davy ranks 6. Before him are Pope Leo XII, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Niels Henrik Abel, John Jay, and Friedrich Schlegel. After him are Thomas Young, Maria Anna Mozart, Paul Barras, François-Joseph Gossec, Louis Nicolas Vauquelin, and Mauro Giuliani.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Humphry Davy ranks 225 out of 8,785. Before him are Guy Fawkes (1570), Æthelbald, King of Wessex (831), George Stephenson (1781), John Harvard (1607), W. H. Auden (1907), and William John Macquorn Rankine (1820). After him are T. E. Lawrence (1888), Marie of Romania (1875), Joseph Priestley (1733), Ringo Starr (1940), C. S. Lewis (1898), and Prince Edward, Duke of Kent (1935).

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Among CHEMISTS In United Kingdom

Among chemists born in United Kingdom, Humphry Davy ranks 6. Before him are John Dalton (1766), William Ramsay (1852), John Macleod (1876), Alexander R. Todd (1907), and Robert Robinson (1886). After him are Cyril Norman Hinshelwood (1897), Arthur Harden (1865), Archer Martin (1910), Rodney Robert Porter (1917), Frederick Soddy (1877), and Francis William Aston (1877).

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