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Previous | Home | NextUpon entering the Royal Institution, in the hallway is this portrait of Davy by Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769-1830), dated 1821. Davy joined the Royal Institution in 1801. By the method of electrolysis he was the first to prepare metallic potassium and sodium, and went on to prepare strontium, barium, calcium, magnesium, lithium, and boron. He was the first to recognize the true, elemental nature of chlorine and iodine.
