Editing Humphry Davy (section)

===Scientific and literary recognition===
*in 1827, the mineral [[davyne]] was named in his honour by W. Haidinger.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Haidinger|first1=W|title=Über den Davyn, eine neue Mineralspecies|journal=Annalen der Physik und Chemie|date=1827|volume=87|issue=11|pages=470–74|doi=10.1002/andp.18270871111|bibcode=1828AnP....87..470H|url=https://zenodo.org/record/1423516|access-date=4 July 2019|archive-date=1 August 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200801201059/https://zenodo.org/record/1423516|url-status=live}}</ref>
*Annually since 1877, the [[Royal Society of London]] has awarded the [[Davy Medal]] "for an outstandingly important recent discovery in any branch of chemistry."<ref>{{Cite web |url = https://royalsociety.org/grants-schemes-awards/awards/davy-medal/ |title = Davy Medal |website = Royalsociety.org |date = 30 November 2023 |access-date = 16 February 2018 |archive-date = 26 September 2015 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150926175111/https://royalsociety.org/grants-schemes-awards/awards/davy-medal/ |url-status = live }}</ref>
*The [[Davy (crater)|Davy]] [[lunar crater]] is named after him. It has a diameter of 34&nbsp;km and its coordinates are 11.8S, 8.1W.<ref>{{gpn|1429}}</ref>
*Davy's passion for [[fly-fishing]] earned him the informal title "the father of modern fly-fishing", and his book ''Salmonia''<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/salmoniadaysfly01davygoog|title=Salmonia: Days of Fly Fishing. In a Series of Conversations; with Some Account of the Habits of ...|date=23 October 1832|publisher=Carey and Lea|access-date=23 October 2021|website=Archive.org}}</ref> is often considered to be "the fly-fisherman bible".
*The poet [[Samuel Taylor Coleridge]] said he "attended Davy's lectures to enlarge my stock of metaphors".{{sfn|Holmes|2008|p=288}}