CHEMIST

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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Humphry Davy has received more than 2,062,999 page views. His biography is available in 83 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 81 in 2019). Humphry Davy is the 27th most popular chemist (down from 20th in 2019), the 180th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 184th in 2019) and the 3rd 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

Among chemists, Humphry Davy ranks 27 out of 602. Before him are Paul Karrer, William Ramsay, Emil Fischer, Eduard Buchner, Albert Hofmann, and Otto Wallach. After him are Justus von Liebig, Casimir Funk, John Howard Northrop, Ilya Prigogine, Walther Nernst, and Robert Bunsen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1778, Humphry Davy ranks 4. Before him are Marie Thérèse of France, Louis Bonaparte, and Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac. After him are Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden, José de San Martín, Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Giovanni Battista Belzoni, Bernardo O'Higgins, Fernando Sor, and Augustin Pyramus de Candolle. Among people deceased in 1829, Humphry Davy ranks 6. Before him are Niels Henrik Abel, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, John Jay, Pope Leo XII, and Thomas Young. After him are Paul Barras, Maria Anna Mozart, Friedrich Schlegel, François-Joseph Gossec, Louis Nicolas Vauquelin, and Alexander Griboyedov.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Humphry Davy ranks 180 out of 8,785. Before him are John Milton (1608), George Best (1946), Edward Smith (1850), Norman Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank (1935), Boudica (33), and Aleister Crowley (1875). After him are Charlotte Rampling (1946), Elizabeth of York (1466), Henry III of England (1207), Geoffrey Chaucer (1343), Peter O'Toole (1932), and Robert the Bruce (1274).

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Among CHEMISTS In United Kingdom

Among chemists born in United Kingdom, Humphry Davy ranks 3. Before him are John Dalton (1766), and William Ramsay (1852). After him are Frederick Sanger (1918), Arthur Harden (1865), Frederick Soddy (1877), Norman Haworth (1883), Francis William Aston (1877), William Crookes (1832), Henry Hallett Dale (1875), Frederick Gowland Hopkins (1861), and Robert Robinson (1886).

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