British chemist
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He ran electricity through compounds and pulled out elements no one had seen before — potassium, sodium, calcium, barium, magnesium, boron — then proved chlorine and iodine were elements too. Before that, he inhaled nitrous oxide, laughed his head off, and told surgeons they could use it to kill pain.
Humphry Davy was born 17 December 1778 in Britain and became the chemist who invented electrochemistry. In 1799 he experimented with nitrous oxide, found it made him laugh, nicknamed it "laughing gas," and wrote about its potential as an anaesthetic for surgery. Then in 1807 he used electricity to isolate potassium and sodium for the first time, and the following year calcium, strontium, barium, magnesium, and boron. He also discovered the elemental nature of chlorine and iodine, studied the forces in these separations, invented the Davy lamp and an early arc lamp, and is credited with discove…
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Every new discovery may be considered as a new species of manufacture, awakening moral industry and sagacity, and employing, as it were, new capital of mind.
Fortunately science, like that nature to which it belongs, is neither limited by time nor by space. It belongs to the world, and is of no country and of no age.
I breakfasted this morning with Sir Humphry Davy, of whom we have heard so much in America.
You write with great eloquence and truth on the effects of mountain scenery on the mind.
In September, 1807, our illustrious chemist applied his great principle to the analyses of potash, the vegetable alkali.
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