The names of Rumford, Banks, Young, Davy, Faraday, Tyndall, will always add lustre to its annals; nor will it be forgotten that in its laboratory were made the most famous discoveries of Davy and ...

His life took a major turn when he attended lectures by the famed chemist Sir Humphry Davy. Impressed by Faraday's enthusiasm, Davy hired him as his assistant at the Royal Institution in London ...