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Born: 25 January 1627 · Died: 31 December 1691 · Age at death: 64
Robert Boyle died aged 64. He was born on 25 January 1627 and died on 31 December 1691.
Anglo-Irish scientist who formulated Boyle's law of gases and helped found modern chemistry and the Royal Society
Did you know?He was a founding member of the Royal Society and is often described as the father of modern chemistry.
Robert Boyle helped turn alchemy into modern chemistry. He was born at Lismore Castle in Ireland, the fourteenth child of the wealthy Earl of Cork. With his assistant Robert Hooke he built an improved air pump to study the vacuum. He discovered that the pressure of a gas rises as its volume falls, now known as Boyle's law. In The Sceptical Chymist he argued for careful experiment over ancient theory. He was a founding member of the Royal Society. He was also deeply religious.
Robert Boyle (25 January 1627 – 31 December 1691) was an Anglo-Irish chemist, alchemist, physicist, theologian, and inventor. Boyle is largely regarded today as the first modern chemist, and therefore one of the founders of modern chemistry, and one of the pioneers of modern experimental scientific method.
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Anglo-Irish scientist, 1627–1691
Robert Boyle was born at Lismore Castle on 25 January 1627.
He worked in Oxford.
He stated Boyle's law in 1662.
He wrote The Sceptical Chymist (1661).
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Did you know?He was the fourteenth child of the Earl of Cork.
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