Robert Boyle, portrait by Johann Kerseboom, oil on canvas, 1689.


Robert Boyle (1627–1691) was an Anglo-Irish natural philosopher, chemist, physicist and inventor. One of the founders of modern chemistry, he is renowned for the eponymous Boyle's Law, describing the relationship between volume and pressure in a gas.


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