Broglie, Louis

In 1812 he was knighted by the prince regent for his contributions to electrochemistry, married a wealthy widow Jane Apreece, and was thus able to retire from the Royal Institution at the age of thirty-four, although he remained the director of its laboratory. It was in this capacity that he appointed Michael Faraday as an assistant in the laboratory early in 1813. Later that year with his wife, her maid, and Faraday as an assistant, amanuensis (scribe), and reluctant valet, Davy embarked on an eighteen-month tour of the European continent, visiting many laboratories and sites of natural and cultural interest. On their return, Davy invented, with Faraday s assistance, the miners safety lamp, which reinforced his reputation in applied science. With a confidence that was shared by all romantics of the time, Davy believed that nothing was beyond his reach, and in 1820 he was elected president of the Royal Society The U K. National Royal Society. This was a position he was ill-equipped to undertake after 

Academy of Science, founded in 1660 the forty-two-year presidency of Joseph Banks. Banks had been an autocratic 

(1839-1840). The Collected Works of Sir Humphry Davy. 9 vols. London Smith, Elder and Co. (Reprinted with an introduction by David Knight, 2001, Bristol Thoemmes Press.) 

Fullmer, June Z. (2 000). Young Humphry Davy The Making of an Experimental Chemist. Philadelphia American Philosophical Society. 

Golinski, Jan (1992). Science as Public Culture Chemistry and Enlightenment in Britain 1760-1820. Cambridge, U.K. Cambridge University Press. 

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De Broglie, Louis. Matter and Light. New York Dover Books, 1970. 

In 1955 Austria became free of Soviet occupation, and Schrodinger returned to the University of Vienna, where he received many honors as Austria s greatest living scientist. Schrodinger retired in 1958 and died in 1961. SEE ALSO DE Broglie, Louis Quantum Chemistry Watson, James Dewey. 

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