Humphry Davy
Chemist, Academic
1778 – 1829
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Who was Humphry Davy?
Inventor of the Miner's Safety Lamp
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- Born
- Dec 17, 1778
Penzance - Also known as
- Humphrey Davy
- Sir Humphrey Davy
- Siblings
- Ethnicity
- Cornish people
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Profession
- Employment
- President, Royal Society
(1820 - 1827)
- President, Royal Society
- Lived in
- Penzance
- Died
- May 29, 1829
Geneva - Resting place
- Cimetière des Rois
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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