Humphry Davy, English chemist and physicist (died 1829)

Humphry Davy

British chemist and inventor (1778–1829)

Sir Humphry Davy, 1st Baronet 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,…