హంఫ్రీ డేవీ: కూర్పుల మధ్య తేడాలు

▲[[Fellow of the Royal Society|FRS]] [[Royal Irish Academy|MRIA]] ([[17 December]] [[1778]] &ndash; [[29 May]] [[1829]]) was a [[United Kingdom|British]] [[chemist]] and inventor.<ref name=ODNB /> He is probably best remembered today for his discoveries of several [[alkali metal|alkali]] and [[alkaline earth element]]s, as well as contributions to the discoveries of the elemental nature of [[chlorine]] and [[iodine]]. He invented the [[Davy lamp]], which allowed miners to enter gassy workings. [[Jöns Jakob Berzelius|Berzelius]] called Davy's 1806 [[Bakerian Lecture]] ''On Some Chemical Agencies of Electricity''<ref>{{cite web | last = | first = | authorlink = | coauthors = | title = On Some Chemical Agencies of Electricity | work = | publisher = | date = | url = http://www.english.upenn.edu/Projects/knarf/Davy/davy5.html | format = | doi = | accessdate = 2008-03-02}}</ref> "one of the best memoirs which has ever enriched the theory of chemistry."<ref>Berzelius, J. J. (1818). ''Traite de chimie'', trans. Jourdian and Esslinger, vol. 1, pg. 164. 1st Swedish ed. (''Larbok i kemien''), Stockholm, this ed., 8 vol., Paris (1829-33).</ref> This paper was central to any [[chemical affinity]] theory in the first half of the nineteenth century.<ref name="Levere" >{{cite book | last = Levere | first = Trevor H. | title = Affinity and Matter – Elements of Chemical Philosophy 1800-1865 | publisher = Gordon and Breach Science Publishers | year = 1971 | id = ISBN 2881245838}}</ref>