Some historians of science claim that the handsomest of the great scientist was the English chemist
Humphry Davy. His lectures on science during the years of the Napoleonic wars were extremely successful, society women flocking to him as much to see him as to hear his excellent talks. He discovered seven new elements and nitrous oxide (a gas), and he invented the miner's lamp. He seems also to have been a talented poet, according to the estimate of such established poets as Wordsworth and Coleridge.
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