PENLEE HOUSE GALLERY AND MUSEUM. It is strange that Humphry Davy of Penzance is best known today for an invention made to help coal miners in the Midlands. Davy was a chemist and became president ...

It's basically a nitrogen atom with three iodines stuck to it ... Professor Brian Cox introduces Humphry Davy, who was passionate both about chemistry and communicating his enthusiasm for science ...

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 ...