Chemist. Born Penzance. Wrote "Researches, Chemical and Philosophical". Discovered potassium, sodium, barium, strontium, etc. Invented the safety lamp for coal miners.
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Sir Humphry Davy
Surveyor. Born Reading. Served in Canada and on his return worked on the ord...
Admiral and hydrographer (map making for sailors). Developed the Beaufort Sc...
DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) is a nucleic acid that contains the genetic instr...
Amateur astronomer. One of the Commissioners for the Great Exhibition, 1951....
