Definition of Sir Humphrey Davy

1. Noun. English chemist who was a pioneer in electrochemistry and who used it to isolate elements sodium and potassium and barium and boron and calcium and magnesium and chlorine (1778-1829).

Exact synonyms: Davy, Humphrey Davy
Generic synonyms: Chemist

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sir Humphrey Davy

Sir Hans Adolf Krebs
Sir Harold George Nicolson
Sir Harold Walter Kroto
Sir Harry MacLennan Lauder
Sir Henry Bessemer
Sir Henry Joseph Wood
Sir Henry Maxmilian Beerbohm
Sir Henry Morgan
Sir Henry Morton Stanley
Sir Henry Percy
Sir Henry Rider Haggard
Sir Henry Wood
Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree
Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim
Sir Howard Walter Florey
Sir Humphrey Davy (current term)
Sir Humphrey Gilbert
Sir Isaac Newton
Sir Isaac Pitman
Sir Jack Hobbs
Sir Jacob Epstein
Sir James Augustus Henry Murray
Sir James Augustus Murray
Sir James Clark Ross
Sir James Dewar
Sir James George Frazer
Sir James Matthew Barrie
Sir James Murray
Sir James Paget
Sir James Paul McCartney

Literary usage of Sir Humphrey Davy

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Quarterly Review by Robert Walsh (1837)
"By Sir HUMPHREY DAVY, LL. D. London:. Agriculture, in its broadest sense, may be defined the cultivation of the earth; and it is probably the most ancient ..."

2. The Cymry of '76: Or, Welshmen, & Their Descendants of the American by Alexander Jones, Samuel Jenkins (1855)
"Sir Humphrey Davy was born of poor parents, at Pen- zance, in Cornwall: and was (as both his names import) of Ancient Briton stock. DR. ..."

3. Annual Record of Science and Industry for 1871-78 by Spencer Fullerton Baird (1873)
"STATUE TO Sir Humphrey Davy. A statue has just been erected to the memory of Sir Humphrey Davy at Penzance, in Cornwall, at a cost of £600. ..."

4. The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal (1834)
"I. Some Observations on a Note of M, A. Van Beek, purporting to point out an Error in the Bakerian Lecture of the late Sir Humphrey Davy " On the Relation ..."

5. Literature in Letters, Or, Manners, Art, Criticism, Biography, History, and by James Philemon Holcombe (1866)
"Lord Byron to Mr. Murray—An Italian Lady and Sir Humphrey Davy. ... Sir Humphrey Davy was here last fortnight, and I was in his company in the house of a ..."

6. Literature in Letters, Or, Manners, Art, Criticism, Biography, History, and by James Philemon Holcombe (1866)
"Lord Byron to Mr. Murray—An Italian Lady and Sir Humphrey Davy. ... Sir Humphrey Davy was here last fortnight, and I was in his company in the house of a ..."

7. The Journal of Foreign Medical Science and Literature edited by Samuel Emlen (1817)
"By Sir HUMPHREY DAVY, LL.DFRS THE different colours examined by this eminent chemist, have been found in making excavations in the Roman territory; ..."

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