Acetylene of 180°. Acetylene was discovered in 1836 by Edmund Davy, who identified it as a "new carburet of hydrogen". It was rediscovered in 1860 by French chemist Marcellin Berthelot, who coined the name "acétylène". Berthelot's empirical formula for acetylene (CH), as well as the alternative name "quadricarbure d'hydrogène" ("hydrogen quadricarbide"), were incorrect because chemists at that time used the wrong atomic mass for carbon (6 instead of 12). Berthelot was able to prepare this gas by passing vapours of organic compounds (methanol, ethanol, etc.) through a red-hot tube and collecting the effluent. He also found that acetylene was formed by
Peter Waterhouse (scientist) Molecular and Microbial Biosciences at the University of Sydney. Following the conclusion of this fellowship, Waterhouse left the University of Sydney and took up a professorial appointment at the Queensland University of Technology in 2014. In the late 1990s, Waterhouse led the CSIRO group which discovered that gene silencing and transgene-mediated virus resistance in plants were induced and targeted by double-stranded RNAs. Peter Waterhouse (scientist) Peter Michael Waterhouse is a British-Australian plant virologist and geneticist. He is a professor at the Queensland University of Technology. Peter Waterhouse received his Bachelor of Science degree (1977) from the University of Newcastle upon