Davy-Faraday Research Laboratory

John Meurig Thomas, Davy Faraday Research Laboratory, The Royal Institution of Great Britain, 21 Albemarle Street, London, United Kingdom and also at Department of Materials Science, Cambridge CB2 1QY, UK (171)... 

Davy Faraday Research Laboratory, The Royal Institution of Great Britain,... 

In the mid-1890s Dewar was responsible for one of the most important developments in the history of the Royal Institution the establishment and endowment of the Davy-Faraday Research Laboratory of the Royal Institution. This not only entailed the acquisition of a new building, but also the direct support of Dewar s cryogenic research. Success came in 1898 when he finally liquefied hydrogen. However, in the race with Heike Kamerlingh Onnes at the University of Leiden to liquefy helium, Dewar lost and the Nobel Prize went to Kamerlingh Onnes. Although Dewar was nominated several times, he never won the coveted prize. 

An essay on her pinacyanol work gained her the Gamble Prize in 1921, and that same year she was awarded the Yarrow Scientific Research Fellowship to continue her work in Cambridge, where she remained until 1924. She worked for a few months at the Davy Faraday Research Laboratory of the Royal Institution, and then was hired by the photographic company of Ilford Ltd.00 The 6 years she spent at Ilford were marred by difficult relations with the Research Director, Frank Forster Renwick. Matters came to a head in 1930, when Hamer complained that her new laboratory was so hot in summer it was impossible to work Renwick refused to take any action and Hamer resigned. 

Tie Scientific and Technical Department of the Imperial Institute conducts investigations for the Indian and Colonial Governments, chiefly relating to the composition and utilisation of raw materials. The National Physical Laboratory includes a Department of Metallurgy and Metallurgical Chemistry. Laboratories are attached to many public Institutions, such as the Davy-Faraday Research Laboratory of Hie Royal Institution, and those of the Lister Institute and the Royal Dublin Society. 

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