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Edmund Davy

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Gender Male
Born Penzance
United Kingdom
Date of died November 5,1857
DiedDublin
Ireland
Job Professor
Chemist
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Edmund Davy Life story


Edmund Davy FRS 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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