who discovered calciun
Sir Humphry Davy discovered calcium in 1808 by isolating the impure metal through the electrolysis of a lime and mercuric oxide mixture. He accomplished this by studying the preparation of calcium amalgam through the electrolysis of lime in mercury.
By Jennifer Rosenberg. In 1928, bacteriologist Alexander Fleming made a chance discovery from an already discarded, contaminated Petri dish. The mold that had contaminated the experiment turned out to contain a powerful antibiotic, penicillin.