A new digital platform has been launched which offers unprecedented access to the thoughts, discoveries and personal reflections of pioneering British chemist Sir Humphry Davy, the man best remembered ...

Professor Brian Cox introduces Humphry Davy, who was passionate both ... making nitrogen triiodide from iodine (an element that Davy discovered) and concentrated ammonia, with explosive results.

The inscription reads: To the memory of Sir Humphry Davy Baronet, distinguished throughout the world by his discoveries in chemical science: President of the Royal Society; member of the National ...

A 49-year-old exercise book discovered in a drawer of a Cornish ... Morgan found the book when he was tidying a classroom at Humphry Davy School in Penzance during half-term.

In this case the rivals were Louis Joseph Gay-Lussac and Louis Jacques Thenard in France and Humphry Davy in England, both of whom announced the discovery in June 1808. Gay-Lussac and Thenard used ...

A former Somerset school pupil has reunited with an exercise book discovered in a school drawer ... work dated 1975 was recently found at Humphry Davy School, Penzance, tucked in the back ...