In a drawing room above his laboratory, chemist Humphry Davy threw quite the soiree. But his nitrous oxide parties were more than a rollicking good time: they led to the discovery of anaesthesia.

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 of the Royal Society at a young age.

Sir Humphry Davy (1778-1829) was a celebrated chemist and inventor. He was the first person to describe the properties of nitrous oxide, which is still extensively used in anaesthesia.

Humphry Davy. Humphry Davy was another scientist who was also an accomplished poet. ... Davy encouraged his poet friends to try similar literary “experiments”, but to little avail.

Professor Brian Cox follows in the footsteps of 19th Century chemist Humphry Davy, recreating one of his explosive experiments that he used to impress the crowds at the Royal Institution.

Mark Peplow parses a book on Humphry Davy's dazzling mix of personas. Historian Jan Golinski recounts this “unprecedented binge” in The Experimental Self, a study that unpicks the chemist's ...

Sarah K. Bolton: Famous Men of Science. (New York, 1889) In 1799, a chemist and inventor named Humphry Davy started experimenting with nitrous oxide, the gas we now call “laughing gas.” ...

She has published The Science of Life and Death in Frankenstein (2021), Creating Romanticism (2013), Romanticism: An Introduction(2010), and Shelley and Vitality (2005). She co-edited The Collected ...

Now, for the very first time, the public will be able to see Davy’s notes made 200 years ago while he discovered elements that changed our understanding of science as we know it.

A medal Napoleon gave to British scientist Humphry Davy while France and Britain were at war was thrown away by Davy's widow, a relative has said. Jane Davy threw her husband's medal into the sea near ...

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 of the Royal Society at a young age.