Celebrating the life of the town’s most famous inventor, an atmospheric lantern parade swept through the streets in his ...

Hundreds of people in Penzance came together to sing happy birthday to a statue. The celebrations also saw a lantern parade ...

On the north wall of the chapel of St Andrew in Westminster Abbey is a white marble memorial to chemist and poet Sir Humphry Davy. The tablet was erected by Lady Davy and is by sculptor Sir Francis ...

In 1817, Sir Humphrey Davy published his theory on the cauMs of the illuminating property of flames. He stated tha/ this phenomenon was due to the presence in the midst; of/the flame of solid ...

Sir Humphry Davy (1778-1829) discovered more chemical elements than any individual has before or since. His achievements saw him rise up through society’s ranks from relatively modest origins to ...

In this illuminating and entertaining biography David Knight draws upon Humphry Davy's poetry, notebooks and informal writings to introduce us to one of the first professional scientists. Davy is best ...

The nineteenth-century chemist Sir Humphry Davy once said, “Nothing begets good science like the development of a good instrument.” If that statement was true in Davy's day, it is all the more ...

Sir Humphrey Davy was the man who created the Davy lamp, he invented it for the miners so that they could see whilst at work. It was a great invention for all mining villages and especially for my ...

Join us at this year’s Humphry Davy Lecture, in collaboration with the Royal Astronomical ... He can occasionally be seen in his one-man play about Newton - 'Sir Isaac Remembers…', and was the subject ...

Originally apprenticed to a bookbinder, Michael Faraday (1791–1867) began to attend Sir Humphrey Davy's chemistry lectures purely out of interest. Although he soon recognised that science would be his ...

It is strange that Humphry Davy of Penzance is best known today for ... His friends included Sir Walter Scott, and fishing was one of his passions. Davy ought to be better known for his work ...