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calcium | discoverers
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Humphry Davy
Basic information
full name | Sir Humphry Davy, 1st Baronet date of birth | Thursday, December 17, 1778 (241 years ago) place of birth | Penzance, Cornwall, United Kingdom date of death | Friday, May 29, 1829 (age: 50 years) (191 years ago) place of death | Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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Notable facts
Chemist who discovered a number of alkali and alkaline earth metals Invented the Davy lamp in 1815, so that miners could safely work despite flammable gases His On Some Chemical Agencies of Electricity lecture is regarded as key to chemical affinity theory of his era Contributed to research regarding the nature of the elements of chlorine and iodine
Familial relationships
Sibling
John Davy
Scientific contributions
Inventions
arc lamp (≈ 1805) | Davy lamp (1815) | safety lamp (1816)
Wikipedia summary
Sir Humphry Davy, 1st Baronet (17 December 1778 - 29 May 1829) was a Cornish chemist and inventor, who is best remembered today for isolating, by using electricity, a series of elements for the first time: potassium and sodium in 1807 and calcium, strontium, barium, magnesium and boron the following year, as well as discovering the elemental nature of chlorine and iodine. Davy also studied the forces involved in these separations, inventing the new field of electrochemistry.
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