Edmund Davy FRS (1785 – 5 November 1857)[1] was a professor of chemistry at the Royal Cork Institution from 1813 and at the Royal Dublin Society from 1826.[2] He discovered acetylene, as it was later named[3] by Marcellin Berthelot. He was also an original member of the Chemical Society, and a member of the Royal Irish Academy.[1]
^ abChristopher F. Lindsey, 'Davy, Edmund (1785–1857)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 6 April 2008
^Leslie Stephen (Ed.). Dictionary of National Biography, Smith, Elder & Co., London, 1888, Vol. XIV, p.185.
^American Council of Learned Societies. Dictionary of Scientific Biography, Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1981, Vol. 2, p.67.
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