Chemist. Born Penzance. Wrote "Researches, Chemical and Philosophical". Discovered potassium, sodium, barium, strontium, etc. Invented the safety lamp for coal miners.
Go to map of other memorials in this area
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Sir Humphry Davy
Medical Scientist. Born as Sydney Arthur Monckton Copeman in the cathedral cl...
Chemist, alchemist, astronomer, astrologer, engineer, geographer, philosopher...
Military engineer, surveyor, antiquary. Born South Lanarkshire. Founder of t...
