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Researchers at Lancaster University in the UK have discovered hundreds of unpublished poems written by the nineteenth-century British chemist Sir Humphry Davy in his private notebooks. Much of the ...

Sir Humphry Davy (centre) surrounded by pages from his notebooks capturing his calculations, artwork, poetry, notes and doodles. The portrait of Sir Humphry is by H.W. Pickersgill and courtesy of the ...

Sir Humphry Davy is a name well known to many students of chemistry. Isolator of elements and inventor of a safety lamp for miners, Davy was one of the most famous chemists of the late 1700s and early ...

Colophon: London : Printed by Stewart and Murray ... Contents v. 1. Memoirs of the life of Sir Humphry Davy / by his brother, John Davy -- v. 2. Early miscellaneous papers from 1799 to 1805, with an ...

You can't quite be sure you're watching PBS when the first scene you catch depicts a couple of 20-somethings huffing laughing gas. But you're not mistaken, public television viewers. That's ...

(via Royal Institution) Humphry Davy is one of the best know men of science of the nineteenth century. He isolated nine different chemical elements, was the first person to inhale nitrous oxide and ...

An etching of a Royal Institution lecture by James Gillray (1802). Davy is on the right, holding the bellows. Science History Images/Alamy Stock Photo Sir Humphry Davy (1778-1829) is usually ...

In Bristol in 1799, a young man started to experiment with newly discovered gases, looking for a cure for tuberculosis. Humphry Davy, aged 20, nearly killed himself inhaling carbon monoxide. Nitrous ...

Sir Humphry Davy fascinated rapturous crowds when he delivered his lectures in chemistry to the Royal Institution in London. In the late 1700s and early 1800s and in sumptuous surroundings, Davy would ...