Sir Humphry Davy - translation to γαλλικά
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Sir Humphry Davy - translation to γαλλικά

BRITISH CHEMIST (1778-1829)
Humphrey Davey; Sir Humphry Davy; Sir Humphrey Davy; Humphry, Baronet Davy; Sir Humphry Davy, 1st Baronet; Humphrey Davy; Humprey Davy; Davy baronets; Davy Baronets

Sir Humphry Davy      
Sir Humphry Davy (1778-1829), English chemist
Davy         
Davy, male first name; family name; Sir Humphry Davy (1778-1829), English chemist

Ορισμός

Davy Jones's locker
¦ noun informal the bottom of the sea, especially regarded as the grave of those drowned at sea.
Origin
from C18 naut. sl. Davy Jones, denoting the evil spirit of the sea.

Βικιπαίδεια

Humphry Davy

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. Davy is also credited to have been the first to discover clathrate hydrates in his lab.

In 1799 he experimented with nitrous oxide and was astonished at how it made him laugh, so he nicknamed it "laughing gas" and wrote about its potential anaesthetic properties in relieving pain during surgery.

Davy was a baronet, President of the Royal Society (PRS), Member of the Royal Irish Academy (MRIA), Fellow of the Geological Society (FGS), and a member of the American Philosophical Society (elected 1810). 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."