Introduction
Creating a new field of science by the time he was thirty, Sir Humphry Davy began influencing our world at an early age, changing and expanding the realm of science. He is considered to be one of the finest scientists Great Britain has ever produced. Davy has accomplished a vast variety of awards and discoveries, including earning a Copley Medal and being knighted in 1812; as well as being known for his work with alkali and alkaline earth metals, and making discoveries with other elements such as chlorine and iodine.
Early Life and Education Born in Penzance, Cornwall, England on the seventeenth of December 1778, Humphry Davy was the first of five children. In 1794, Davy’s father, Robert Davy, died unexpectedly. Soon after, Gregory Watt,
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During this time he studied ethics, metaphysics (the branch of philosophy that studies the relationship between mind and matter), and mathematics in preparation to enter the field of medicine. Soon becoming intrigued by these studies, Davy dropped his focus on medicine and took on chemistry in 1797. At this time, at the age of nineteen, he moved to Bristol to study science. In 1800, at the young age of 22, he published his work of investigating gases and testing them in “Researches, Chemical and Philosophical”. On the ninth of April 1799 Davy made his first influential discovery at the Pneumatic Instituion; that nitrous oxide (commonly known as laughing gas) was completely safe to the body. This experimentation and turning point in the world of anesthetics built Davy the foundation to an extremely positive reputation. The next year, he was hired as an assistant lecturer in chemistry at the Royal Institution, (where his lectures were extremely successful) drawing in high London society. On the thirty-first of May 1802, he was promoted to professor at the Institution. Davy became a fellow of the Royal Society in 1803 proceeded to earn a Copley Medal in
... Royal Society. He discovered numerous things about matters such as light and gravity, and in 1703 was elected as president of the Royal Society.
David "Davy" Crockett was the fifth of nine children and the fifth son born to John and Rebecca Hawkins Crockett.
Robert Fulton was born on November 14th 1765 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Robert’s father was a tailor by trade; he gave up his farming skills and moved back in with Robert and his family. Unfortunately, three years later he passed.
On March 2, 1793, Samuel Houston was born to Major Sam Houston and Elizabeth Paxton Houston. He was the fifth of nine children. Born at Timber Ridge, Rockbridge County, in the Shenandoah Valley. At the age of thirteen, his father, Major Sam Houston, died suddenly at Dennis Callighan's Tavern near present-day Callaghan, Virginia in Alleghany County, 40 miles west of Timber Ridge while on militia inspections. Mrs. Elizabeth Houston took her nine children to a farm on Baker Creek in Tennessee.
have played an important part in the scientific world by putting forth their discoveries for
Thomas Jefferson was born on April 13th, 1743, in Shadwell, Virginia. He was the third of ten children in the family. Jefferson was born into a very rich family. Jefferson’s father,
William Pitt the Younger was born on May 28, 1759, in Kent, England. The younger Pitt was the fourth of five children born to William Pitt the Elder and his wife Lady Hester Grenville. William was always the favorite son of Pitt the Elder. His father was appointed Earl of Chatham in 1766. As a result this, William’s political status later in life was affected by his father’s previous position.
Samuel Adams was born in Boston on September 27, 1722. He was the son of Samuel Adams Sr. and Mary Fifield. Samuel Adams had eleven siblings and only two lived past their third birthday. His Father was a deacon of the Congregation Church. His was born into a wealthy family that had high expectations for him. Samuel Adams received a top notch education at the age of 14.
This was the beginning of many awards in his experiments to come. He was elected to the Royal Society on May 29, 1756. This is probably one of the most influential factors in his work and this is one way that his work was seen by people all over Europe and other parts of the world. Members of the Royal Society had their scientific works published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. (DOSB,129)
Dmitri Mendeleev was one of the most famous modern-day scientists of all time who contributed greatly to the world’s fields of science, technology, and politics. He helped modernize the world and set it farther ahead into the future. Mendeleev also made studying chemistry easier, by creating a table with the elements and the atomic weights of them put in order by their properties.
Henry Cavendish was born October 10, 1731 in Nice, France. His mother, Lady Anne Grey was the daughter of the first Duke of Kent while his father Lord Charles Cavendish, was second Duke of Devonshire. His ancestry links back to many of the aristocratic families in Great Britain. The chemist/physicist is most accredited for the discovery of hydrogen, the “inflammable air” and measuring the Earth’s density, but he also researched and discovered many other important scientific revolutions.
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Of all the scientists to emerge from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries there is one whose name is known by almost all living people. While most of these do not understand this mans work, everyone knows that his impact on the world is astonishing.