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Edmund Davy
Edmund Davy
FRS
(1785 – 5 November 1857) was a professor of
Chemistry
at the
Royal Cork Institution
from 1813 and professor of chemistry at the
Royal Dublin Society
from 1826. He discovered
acetylene
, as it was later named by
Marcellin Berthelot
. He was also an original member of the
Chemical Society
, and a member of the
Royal Irish Academy
.
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