Cerium is named after the asteroid Ceres, which was discovered in 1801 ... but he didn't figure out it was an element. Sir Humphry Davy did, in 1810. Chromium is responsible for the many different ...

On the north wall of the chapel of St Andrew in Westminster Abbey is a white marble memorial to chemist and poet Sir Humphry ... lamp and he also discovered electrolysis, isolated iodine and also ...

Abstract: In this talk, Professor Sharon Ruston will explore notebooks kept by Sir Humphry Davy (1778-1829), the ... These notebooks shed light on Davy’s creative processes as he isolated elements for ...

In 1811 or 1814 (accounts vary), pioneering English chemist Sir Humphry Davy discovered ClO 2 when he added sulfuric acid to potassium chlorate. This procedure is often used today, along with ...

Professor Brian Cox introduces Humphry Davy ... to recreate one of Davy's spectacular public experiments, making nitrogen triiodide from iodine (an element that Davy discovered) and concentrated ...

In the early 1820s Sir Humphry Davy discovered that a flame enclosed in mesh would not ignite flammable gasses. The fine metal mesh served to cool the flame so that it no longer had the energy ...

Sir Humphry Davy (1778-1829) discovered more chemical elements than any individual has before or since. His achievements saw him rise up through society’s ranks from relatively modest origins to ...

QUESTION Did Humphry Davy administer laughing gas ... A great champion of the scientific method, Davy discovered the elements sodium, potassium and calcium, and he was the first person to isolate ...

At the event, Professor Sharon Ruston, who heads the project, will discuss the poetry that has been discovered recently in ...

When his term of apprenticeship in the bookshop was coming to an end, he applied for the job of assistant to Sir Humphry Davy ... said that Faraday was Davy's greatest discovery. In 1823 Faraday ...