What is Humphry Davy?
[[File:Davy Humphry desk color Howard.jpg|thumb|Humphrey Davy (1803)]] '''Sir Humphry Davy, 1st [[Baronet]]''', FRS (Fellow of the [[Royal Society]]) (born 17 December 1778 in [[Penzance]], [[Cornwall]], [[England]]; died 29 May 1829 in [[Geneva City]], [[Switzerland]]),<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sir-Humphry-Davy-Baronet|title=Sir Humphry Davy, Baronet - British chemist|website=Encyclopedia Britannica}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Davy |url=http://chem.ch.huji.ac.il/history/davy.htm |access-date=2008-05-27 |archive-date=2009-02-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090218150344/http://chem.ch.huji.ac.il/history/davy.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.woodrow.org/teachers/ci/1992/Davy.html |title=Sir Humphry Davy |access-date=2008-05-27 |archive-date=2012-11-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121114135917/http://www.woodrow.org/teachers/ci/1992/davy.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> was a [[Cornish people|Cornish]] [[chemist]]. His study of [[chemistry]] led to the first pure forms of some of the [[chemical element]]s such as [[water]] and [[sodium]]. ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Davy, Humphry}} [[Category:1778 births]] [[Category:1829 deaths]] [[Category:British chemists]] [[Category:People from Cornwall]] {{bio-stub}} {{authority control}}