Robert Boyle

@Boyle's Law, Life Achievements and Childhood ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Robert Boyle was one of the founders of modern chemistry Quadrplegia British Irish Eton College Philosophers Scientists Physicists Chemists Aquarius Celebrities Robert Boyle was an Anglo-Irish natural philosopher, chemist and physicist. As one of the early pioneers of modern experimental scientific method, Boyle made huge contribution to a number of subjects, including chemistry, physics, medicine, hydrostatics, natural history and earth sciences. He was raised in Ireland by the Earl of Cork, Richard Boyle, who sent him to Eton College, England, to pursue higher studies. Boyle travelled around Europe to gain more exposure in education and settled in Dorset to realize his love for science there. He got so much interested in his chemical experiments that when he moved back to Ireland and found out that the country was not ready for a scientific revolution yet, he moved to Oxford. It was in Oxford that he produced the best works of his life, in the company of other physicists, chemists and inventors like himself. He was made the member of council for ‘The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge’. His book ‘The Sceptical Chymist’ is considered as a key book in chemistry and he is known for contributing in a big way in the field of science with his ‘Boyle’s Law’.

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Birthday: January 25, 1627 Died on: December 30, 1691 Nationality: Irish, British Famous: Boyle's Law, Founder of Modern Chemistry, Eton College, Philosophers, Scientists, Physicists, Chemists Siblings: Lady Ranelagh Known as: Robert William Boyle Universities: Eton College University College Oxford Eton College Information Detail Birthday January 25, 1627 Died on December 30, 1691 Nationality Irish, British Famous Boyle's Law, Founder of Modern Chemistry, Eton College, Philosophers, Scientists, Physicists, Chemists Siblings Lady Ranelagh Known as Robert William Boyle Universities Eton College University College Oxford Eton College Notable Alumnis Eton College Discoveries / Inventions Boyle's Law The Prolongation Of Life Art Of Flying Perpetual Light A Ship To Sail With All Winds And A Ship Not To Be Sunk Practicable And Certain Way Of Finding Longitudes Potent Drugs To Alter Or Exalt Imagination Waking Memory And Other Functions And Appease Pain Birth Place Ireland Born Country Ireland Religion Christian Gender Male Father Richard Boyle Mother Catherine Fenton Sun Sign Aquarius Born in Ireland Famous as Founder of Modern Chemistry, Boyle's Law Died at Age 64

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From 1689-1691 Boyle’s health started deteriorating and it became impossible for him to see people anymore and he increasingly became a recluse. In 1691, he died of paralysis, just a week after his sister’s death, with whom he lived for 20 years. Unsplash Personal Life

Robert Boyle was born on January 25, 1627 in Ireland to Richard Boyle and Catherine Fenton. His father was the first Earl of Cork and left England when he was young to settle down in Ireland and his mother was a daughter of the famous writer Geoffrey Fenton. Unsplash Childhood & Early Life

He went to Eton College to study and travelled around Europe for his education. When he was done with his travels in 1644, he settled in Dorset and built a laboratory there for he was very interested in science by now. Unsplash Childhood & Early Life

After completing his educational expeditions in Europe, Boyle settled down in Dorset at his father’s property and started to work with a number of natural philosophers from Royal Society of London called ‘Invisible College’. Unsplash Career

In 1652, Boyle had to move back to Ireland and he tried to continue his scientific endeavors there but soon got frustrated as Ireland was not an ideal country to experiment with chemistry back then because the country was scientifically backward. Unsplash Career

After struggling with Ireland’s lack of proper scientific temperament, Boyle shifted to Oxford in 1654 and rented rooms in the University College and formed the ‘Experimental Philosophy Club’ with natural philosophers and physicians. Unsplash Career

In 1659, Boyle, along with Robert Hooke, constructed an air pump, which helped Boyle in studying air pressure and vacuum, and a year later he published ‘New Experiments Physico-Mechanicall, Touching the Spring of the Air and Its Effects’. Unsplash Career

Boyle published his most influential writing ‘The Sceptical Chymist ‘in 1661, which beat the then-current Aristotelian and especially Paracelsian notions about the composition of matter and methods of chemical analysis. Unsplash Career

In 1662, Boyle gave the empirical relation concerning the compression and expansion of gas at constant temperature, it was known as the ‘Boyle’s law’ later. It was the result of his scientific study of air along with Robert Hooke. Unsplash Major Works

Information	Detail
Birthday	January 25, 1627
Died on	December 30, 1691
Nationality	Irish, British
Famous	Boyle's Law, Founder of Modern Chemistry, Eton College, Philosophers, Scientists, Physicists, Chemists
Siblings	Lady Ranelagh
Known as	Robert William Boyle
Universities	Eton College University College Oxford Eton College
Notable Alumnis	Eton College
Discoveries / Inventions	Boyle's Law The Prolongation Of Life Art Of Flying Perpetual Light A Ship To Sail With All Winds And A Ship Not To Be Sunk Practicable And Certain Way Of Finding Longitudes Potent Drugs To Alter Or Exalt Imagination Waking Memory And Other Functions And Appease Pain
Birth Place	Ireland
Born Country	Ireland
Religion	Christian
Gender	Male
Father	Richard Boyle
Mother	Catherine Fenton
Sun Sign	Aquarius
Born in	Ireland
Famous as	Founder of Modern Chemistry, Boyle's Law
Died at Age	64

Robert Boyle

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Jan 25, 1627

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