In 1824 to reduce the impact of this destructive electrolytic action on ships hulls, their fastenings and underwater equipment, the Victorian scientist-engineer Sir Humphry Davy, developed the first and still most widely used marine electrolysis protection system.

The Lavoisier definition was held as absolute truth for over 30 years, until the 1810 article and subsequent lectures by Sir Humphry Davy in which he proved the lack of oxygen in H < sub > 2 </ sub > S, H < sub > 2 </ sub > Te, and the hydrohalic acids.

Boron was not recognized as an element until it was isolated by Sir Humphry Davy and by Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac and Louis Jacques Thénard.

Jöns Jacob Berzelius, Joseph Priestley, Humphry Davy, Linus Pauling, Gilbert N. Lewis, Josiah Willard Gibbs, Robert Burns Woodward, and Fritz Haber also made notable contributions.

One of the first studies of condensed states of matter was by English chemist Humphry Davy, when he observed that of the forty chemical elements known at the time, twenty-six had metallic properties such as lustre, ductility and high electrical and thermal conductivity.

This was confirmed by Sir Humphry Davy in 1810, who named it chlorine, from the Greek word χλωρος ( chlōros ), meaning " green-yellow.

It was not isolated until 1808 in England when Sir Humphry Davy electrolyzed a mixture of lime and mercuric oxide.

Humphry Davy discovered the use of platinum in catalysis.

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When he was a 16-year-old pupil at St Paul's School in London, the lines about Humphry Davy came into his head during a science class.

The first ever clerihew was written about Sir Humphry Davy:

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It was invented in 1815 by Sir Humphry Davy.

Sir Humphry Davy had discovered that a flame enclosed inside a mesh of a certain fineness cannot ignite firedamp.

* Humphry Davy Brief bio at Spartacus Educational

Since the discovery of potassium by Humphry Davy, it had been assumed that alumina, the basis of clay, contained a metal in combination with oxygen.

At the same time, Cornishman Sir Humphry Davy, the eminent scientist was also looking at the problem.

Sir Humphry Davy, 1st Baronet FRS MRIA FGS ( 17 December 177829 May 1829 ) was a British chemist and inventor.

The Madron parish register records ‘ Humphry Davy, son of Robert Davy, baptized at Penzance, January 22nd, 1779 .’ Robert Davy was a wood carver at Penzance, who pursued his art more for enjoyment than for profit.

Robert Davy and his wife became the parents of five children — two boys, Humphry, the eldest, and John, and three girls.

Some degree of safety was provided by the safety lamp which was invented in 1816 by Sir Humphry Davy and independently by George Stephenson.

* 1816 – Sir Humphry Davy tests the Davy lamp for miners at Hebburn Colliery.

* 1917 – Humphry Osmond, English psychiatrist ( d. 2004 )

* 1675 – Humphry Ditton, English mathematician ( d. 1715 )

* 1742 – Ozias Humphry, English painter ( d. 1810 )

In 1877, the Russian chemist Serge Kern reported discovering the missing element in platinum ore. Kern named what he thought was the new element davyum ( after the noted English chemist Sir Humphry Davy ), but it was eventually determined to be a mixture of iridium, rhodium and iron.

* April 21 – Humphry Repton, English garden designer ( d. 1818 )

* December 17 – Sir Humphry Davy, English chemist ( d. 1829 )

* October 15 – Humphry Ditton, English mathematician ( b. 1675 )

* May 29 – Humphry Ditton, English mathematician ( d. 1715 )

In 1955, English politician Christopher Mayhew took part in an experiment for BBC's Panorama, in which he ingested 400 mg of mescaline under the supervision of psychiatrist Humphry Osmond.

The first occurrence of the term in English is found in An Institution of Fluxions by the English mathematician Humphry Ditton ( 1706 ), where he spells the word abscisse, possibly denoting the plural.

Humphry Repton ( 21 April 1752 – 24 March 1818 ) was the last great English landscape designer of the eighteenth century, often regarded as the successor to Capability Brown ; he also sowed the seeds of the more intricate and eclectic styles of the 19th century.

Other major 18th century English novelists are Samuel Richardson ( 1689-1761 ), author of the epistolary novels Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded ( 1740 ) and Clarissa ( 1747-8 ); Henry Fielding ( 1707 – 54 ), who wrote Joseph Andrews ( 1742 ) and The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling ( 1749 ); Laurence Sterne ( 1713 – 68 ) who published Tristram Shandy in parts between 1759 and 1767 ; Oliver Goldsmith (? 1730-74 ) author of The Vicar of Wakefield ( 1766 ); Tobias Smollett ( 1721 – 71 ) a Scottish novelist best known for his comic picaresque novels, such as The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle ( 1751 ) and The Expedition of Humphry Clinker ( 1771 ), who influenced Charles Dickens ; and Fanny Burney ( 1752-1840 ), whose novels " were enjoyed and admired by Jane Austen ," wrote Evelina ( 1778 ), Cecilia ( 1782 ) and Camilla ( 1796 ).

Austin Dobson praised Praed's " sparkling wit, the clearness and finish of his style, and the flexibility and unflagging vivacity of his rhythm " ( Humphry Ward's English Poets ).

The ' Gardenesque ' style of English garden design evolved during the 1820s from Humphry Repton's Picturesque or ' Mixed ' style, largely under the impetus of J. C. Loudon, who invented the term.

It was built in 1836 by the architect John Adey Repton, a grandson of the English garden designer Humphry Repton.

Humphry Ditton ( 29 May 1675 – 15 October 1715 ) was an English mathematician.

Ozias Humphry ( or Humphrey ) ( 8 September 1742 – 9 March 1810 ) was a leading English painter of portrait miniatures, later oils and pastels, of the 18th century.

Some of the grounds were attractively landscaped by Humphry Repton in the English manner ( some also attribute the work of Capability Brown ).

Humphry Repton was commissioned to lay out the grounds in the classical English landscape fashion, in the lee of the hill upon which the mansion stands.

The English chemist Humphry Davy obtained sodium metal in elemental form for the first time in 1807 by the electrolysis of molten sodium hydroxide.