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1. The Davy lamp was a type of _____ ____ that Humphry Davy designed for use in coal mines. The design prevented the coal dust that hung in the air from catching fire from the lamp’s flame.

Humphy Davy is one of the most renowned chemists of all time. A pioneer in using electricity to drive chemical reactions, he – for the first time – isolated the elements potassium, sodium, calcium, ...

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By Michael S. Rosenwald Derek Humphry, a British-born journalist whose experience helping his terminally ill wife end her life led him to become a crusading pioneer in the right-to-die movement ...

His wife picked the time to die. “You better go and get it,” Derek Humphry said he was told shortly before 1 p.m. on March 29, 1975, at their home near Bath, England. Mr. Humphry, a newspaper ...

Humphry Davy and David Tatty Muirhead were among the Cornishmen recognised in dishes created on last night’s Great British Menu. Cornwall is also represented in the south west heats this week ...

Derek Humphry, a trailblazer in the right-to-die movement that found footing in Oregon in the 1990s and author of the seminal book “Final Exit,” died this month in Eugene. He was 94.