| Authorised form of name | Kane; Sir; Robert John (1809 - 1890) |
| Dates | 1809 - 1890 |
| Nationality | Irish |
| Place of birth | Dublin, Ireland |
| Date of birth | 24 September 1809 |
| Place of death | Dublin, Ireland |
| Date of death | 16 February 1890 |
| Research field | Chemistry |
| Activity | Education:
Trinity College, Dublin (1828); Paris. MD
Career:
Professor of Chemistry, Apothecaries Hall, Dublin (1831-1845); Lecturer in Natural Philosophy and later Professor of Chemistry, Royal Dublin Society (1834-1847); worked in Liebig laboratory at Giessen, Hesse, Germany and isolated acetone from wood spirit; Director of Museum of Irish Industry (1845); Principal of the Royal College, Cork (in 1848); President, Queen's College, Cork (1846-1873); Honorary LLD University of Dublin (1868); Vice Chancellor, Royal University of Ireland (1880); analysed a mineral as the arsenide of manganese, Kaneite
Honours:
Kt 1846
Memberships:
MRIA (1832); LKQCP (1832); FKQCP (1841)
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 07/06/1849 |
| RSActivity | Medals and prizes:
Royal Medal 1841 |
| Relationships | Son of John Kane, manufacturing chemist, of Dublin; married (1890) Katherine Baily of Newbury, Berkshire |
| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB; DSB; Irish Innovators
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc 1889-1890 vol 47 pp xii-xviii by signed J E R |
| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/45044280 |
| Code | NA5547 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| IM/002472 | Kane, Sir Robert John | nd |
| EC/1849/08 | Kane, Sir Robert John: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| RR/3/258 | Referee's report by Robert John Kane, on a paper 'Examination of select vegetable products from India' by John Stenhouse | 4 February 1856 |
| MC/3/97 | Letter from Robert Kane, 37 Tavistock Place, to the Secretary of the Royal Society | 2 June 1840 |
| PT/26/15 | Paper, 'Contributions to the chemical history of the compounds of palladium and platinum' by Robert Kane | [1842] |
| RR/3/247 | Referee's report by Robert John Kane, on a paper 'On rubian and its products of decomposition. Part III' by Edward Schunck | 13 August 1855 |
| MC/3 | Volume 3 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1839-1843 |
| MC/7/162 | Letter from Robert Kane, Industrial Museum, 57 Stephens Green, Dublin, to Dr W H [William Hallowes] Miller, [Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society], Burlington House, Piccadilly, London | 8 January 1865 |
| MC/7 | Volume 7 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1864-1866 |
| PT/23/7 | Paper, 'Contributions to the chemical history of archil [orchil] and litmus' by Robert Kane | 21 April 1840 |