# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/edmund-davy
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:08:04.190Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/edmund-davy"
name: "Edmund Davy"
slug: "edmund-davy"
description: "Edmund Davy FRS was a professor of chemistry at the Royal Cork Institution from 1813 and 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."
tagline: "British chemist"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1785"
deathDate: "1857-11-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.98
  momentum:             15
  historical:           7.40846
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D1%8D%D0%B2%D0%B8%2C_%D0%AD%D0%B4%D0%BC%D1%83%D0%BD%D0%B4"
    title: "Дэви, Эдмунд"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A5%D8%AF%D9%85%D9%88%D9%86%D8%AF_%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%81%D9%8A"
    title: "إدموند دافي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Davy"
    title: "Edmund Davy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Davy"
    title: "Edmund Davy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Davy"
    title: "Edmund Davy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Davy"
    title: "Edmund Davy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Davy"
    title: "Edmund Davy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Davy"
    title: "Edmund Davy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q593690"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump