Robert Boyle
Robert Boyle
Robert William Boyle FRSwas an Anglo-Irish natural philosopher, chemist, physicist and inventor born in Lismore, County Waterford, Ireland. 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. He is best known for Boyle's law, which describes the inversely proportional relationship between the absolute pressure and volume of a gas, if the temperature is kept constant within a closed system. Among...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionProduction Designer
Date of Birth10 October 1909
CityLos Angeles, CA
CountryIreland
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