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  1. Between Hostile Camps: Sir Humphry Davy's Presidency of The Royal Society of London, 1820–1827.David Philip Miller - 1983 - British Journal for the History of Science 16 (1):1-47.
    The career of Humphry Davy (1778–1829) is one of the fairy tales of early nineteenth-century British science. His rise from obscure Cornish origins to world-wide eminence as a chemical discoverer, to popular celebrity amongst London's scientific audiences, to a knighthood from the Prince Regent, and finally to the Presidency of the Royal Society, provide apposite material for Smilesian accounts of British society as open to talents. But the use of Davy's career to illustrate the thesis that ‘genius will out’ is (...)
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