Boyle, Robert (1627–1691)
Irish chemist and physicist, sometimes called the father of chemistry, since
his precision in defining chemical elements
and chemical reactions was a major step in separating the science of chemistry
from alchemy. He also espoused atomism,
proposing an early atomic theory of matter in his Sceptical Chymist
(1661). At his laboratories in Oxford and London, Boyle conducted research
into air, metals, combustion and sound. He made an efficient vacuum pump,
which he used to establish the principle now known as Boyle's
law. He was a founder member of the Royal Society of London.
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