In a drawing room above his laboratory, English chemist Humphry Davy threw quite the soiree. He offered his guests — poets, playwrights, doctors and scientists — not a drink, but a puff from a ...

In 1799, a chemist and inventor named Humphry ... Davy began to allow others to partake, at first his patients but then also perfectly healthy subjects chosen from his circle of family and friends ...

A medal Napoleon gave to British scientist Humphry Davy while France and Britain were at war was thrown away by Davy's widow, a relative has said. Jane Davy threw her husband's medal into the sea near ...