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Sir Humphry Davy
Sir Humphry Davy, detail of an oil painting after Sir Thomas Lawrence; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
In his 1826 Bakerian lecture, titled "On the Relation of Electrical and Chemical Changes," Sir Humphry Davy presented his final thoughts on the field of electrochemistry. This work earned him the Royal Society’s Royal Medal.1