Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1.
English chemist who was a pioneer in electrochemistry and who used it to isolate elements sodium and potassium and barium and boron and calcium and magnesium and chlorine (1778-1829);
[syn: Davy, Humphrey Davy, Sir Humphrey Davy]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
Sir Humphrey Davy
n 1: English chemist who was a pioneer in electrochemistry and
who used it to isolate elements sodium and potassium and
barium and boron and calcium and magnesium and chlorine
(1778-1829) [syn: Davy, Humphrey Davy, Sir Humphrey
Davy]