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
Alexander Pope Humphrey Alexander Pope Humphrey Judge Alexander Pope Humphrey (1848 - 1928), also known as A. P. Humphrey or Alex P. Humphrey, was born in Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky and was a noted lawyer and judge. He attended Centre College in Danville, Kentucky and the University of Virginia law school.. A. P. Humphrey was a chancellor of the Louisville, Kentucky chancery court (a court of equity), having been appointed at age thirty-two to fill the unexpired term of Judge Horatio Washington Bruce who had resigned on March 10, 1880 to accept a position as attorney for the Louisville and Nashville Railroad. A