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Sir Humphry Davy, 1st Baronet FRS MRIA FGS was an English chemist and inventor. He is probably best remembered today for his discoveries of several alkali and alkaline earth metals, as well as contributions to the discoveries of the elemental nature of chlorine and iodine. Berzelius called Davy's 1806 Bakerian Lecture On Some Chemical Agencies of Electricity "one of the best memoirs which has ever enriched the theory of chemistry." This paper was central to any chemical affinity theory in the first half of the nineteenth century. In 1815 he invented the Davy lamp, which allowed miners to work safely in the presence of flammable gases. Wikipedia [ - ]

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Inventor of the Miner's Safety Lamp
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Sir Humphry Davy, 1st Baronet FRS MRIA FGS was an English chemist and inventor. He is probably best remembered today for his discoveries of several alkali and alkaline earth metals, as well as contributions to the discoveries of the elemental nature of chlorine and iodine. Berzelius called Davy's 1806 Bakerian Lecture On Some Chemical Agencies of Electricity "one of the best memoirs which has ever enriched the theory of chemistry." This paper was central to any chemical affinity theory in the first half of the nineteenth century. In 1815 he invented the Davy lamp, which allowed miners to work safely in the presence of flammable gases. Wikipedia

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Davy is remembered most of all for the miners' lamp he invented and for the discovery of sodium and potassium. He was the most prominent scientist of his time and did a great deal to promote the usefulness of science in commerce and industry, and to popularise the achievements of science.