Robert Boyle
Irish natural philosopher and chemist
Robert Boyle FRS was an Anglo-Irish natural philosopher, chemist, physicist, alchemist 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... Wikipedia
Born: January 25, 1627, Lismore, Ireland
Died: December 31, 1691 (age 64 years), London, United Kingdom
Influenced by: Galileo Galilei, René Descartes, and Otto von Guericke
Known for: Boyle's law; Corpuscularianism;
Influenced: Isaac Newton, Robert Hooke, Daniel Bernoulli, and more
Parents: Catherine Fenton Boyle and Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork