Humphry Davy Davy's laboratory assistant, Michael Faraday, went on to enhance Davy's work and would become the more famous and influential scientist. Davy is supposed to have even claimed Faraday as his greatest discovery. Davy later accused Faraday of plagiarism, however, causing Faraday (the first Fullerian Professor of Chemistry) to cease all research in electromagnetism until his mentor's death. Of a sanguine, somewhat irritable temperament, Davy displayed characteristic enthusiasm and energy in all his pursuits. As is shown by his verses and sometimes by his prose, his mind was highly imaginative; the poet Coleridge declared that if he "had not been the
Davy Group association with Arts & Business. The main prizes total €19,000 and were awarded by a judging panel of Royal Hibernian Academy President Stephen McKenna, Royal Ulster Academy President Rita Duffy and international art critic and writer Gemma Tipton. The 2010 Davy Portrait Award was won by Ian Cumberland, a Northern Ireland-based artist. The 2008 Davy Portrait Awards was won by Joe Dunne, a portrait artist based in Dublin. The "Mahon Tribunal" established that Davy, throughout the 1980s and 1990s, made a series of payments to the corrupt politician Liam Lawlor. In 1992, Davy made a political donation of £5,000 to