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Jenkin, J. (1995) Lecture to a history of science group at the Royal Institution, London. Prof. Jenkin, of LaTrobe University in Australia, is writing a joint biography of the Braggs, father and son, at the time they were in Adelaide (The episode is confirmed in an unpublished autobiography by W.L. Bragg, in possession of his son Stephen.). 

Lord Rayleigh (Royal Institution, London) investigations of the densities of the most important gases and for the discovery of argon in connection with these studies. P. Lenard (Kiel) work on cathode rays. 

Sir Humphry Davy, 1778—1829. Professor of chemistry and lecturer at the Royal Institution, London. Scientist, poet, and humanitarian. Donor of the Davy Medal. 

Fig. 1. An entry from the laboratory notebook of Sir Humphry Davy for the period October 1805-October 1812. The entry is for November 1808 a more precise location is rather difficult, but various entries around the same period suggest November 14 as the most likely date. Reproduced by courtesy of the Royal Institution, London, England.

I would like to thank Dr. R. Catterall, Professor M. J. Sienko, and Professor Sir Nevill Mott for numerous stimulating discussions on the chemistry and physics of metal solutions. I also thank Mrs. I. M. McCabe, librarian at the Royal Institution, London, for her expert assistance in helping me uncover Sir Humphry Davy s early contributions in this area, and Mr. M. Springett for his considerable help in preparing figures. The financial assistance of the SERC, The Royal Society, and NATO is gratefully acknowledged. 

Frank A. J. L. James The Royal Institution London, England... 

Srinivasan Natarajan obtained his M.Sc. degree from the Madurai Kamaraj University and his Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. He did postdoctoral work at the Royal Institution London and at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and is a Faculty Fellow at the Centre. 

Letter, Thomas Lonsdale to Mr. Glanville, undated, Lawrence Bragg papers, Royal Institution, London. 

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David Phillips, The Royal Institution, London, England. 

Fig. 1. Manuscripts of Sir Humphry Davy [Royal Institution, London] describing the blue coloring of potassium in contact with ammonia.

He took an appointment as pharmacologist at the Wellcome Physiological Research Laboratories in 1904 and became director of these laboratories in 1906, working for some six years. In 1914 he was appointed director of the department of biochemistry and pharmacology at the National Institute for Medical Research in London. In 1928 he became the director of this institute, serving until his retirement in 1942, when he became professor of chemistry and a director of the Davy-Faraday Laboratory at the Royal Institution, London. 

In 1907 he returned to England to become the Langworthy professor of physics at the University of Manchester, and in 1919 became the Cavendish professor of physics at Cambridge and chairman of the advisory council, H. M. Government, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research professor of natural philosophy, Royal Institution, London and director of the Royal Society Mond Laboratory, Cambridge. 

I wish to acknowledge the support of my colleagues at the General Electric Company, especially A. Factor and G. Davis for their helpful comments, S. Valenty and J. Chera for the infrared spectroscopy, and J. Carnahan, P. Gundlach, and S. Weisman for their analytical services. I also thank Professor George Porter and Dr. A. Harriman of the Royal Institution, London, for their hospitality and assistance during the flash photolysis experiments. 

M. D. Archer, The Royal Institution, London H. A. J. Carless, Birkbeck College, London A. Gilbert, University of Reading W. M. Horspool, University of Dundee... 

Davy, Sir Humphry (i778-i829) British chemist, who studied gases at the Pneumatic Institute in Bristol, where he discovered the anaesthetic properties of dinitrogen oxide (nitrous oxide). He moved to the Royal Institution, London, in 1801 and five years later isolated potassium and sodium by electrolysis. He also prepared barium, boron, calcium, and strontium as well as proving that chlorine and iodine are elements. In 1816 he invented the Davy lamp. 

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