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Biographies, The Scientists: A List. |
 | | This discovery further led Davy to decompose certain substances, and, in the process was to discover metals not commonly found in their pure state, such metals as: potassium, sodium, barium, strontium, etc. In 1812, Davy was knighted. |
 | | In 1815, Sir Humphry invented the safety lamp, his most famous invention, which undoubtedly has saved numerous lives of those who worked in the coal mines. |
 | | During the war years he was to join Oppenheimer's theoretical study group at Berkeley, California. |
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