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Robert Boyle (25 January 1627 - 31 December 1691) was an Anglo-Irish natural philosopher, chemist, physicist, alchemist and inventor, regarded as the first modern chemist and a pioneer of the experimental scientific method. He is best known for Boyle's law, describing the inverse relationship between the pressure and volume of a gas at constant temperature, and for his influential work The Sceptical Chymist, which helped establish chemistry as a distinct scientific discipline.

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Birth YearSourced to the subject's own account
1627 1
Birth DateSourced to the subject's own account
1627-01-25 1
Death DateSourced to the subject's own account
1691-12-31 1
Death YearSourced to the subject's own account
1691 1
FieldSourced to the subject's own account
Physics, chemistry 1
Death PlaceSourced to the subject's own account
London, England 1
NationalitySourced to the subject's own account
Anglo-Irish 1
Notable WorkSourced to the subject's own account
Boyle's law; Boyle temperature; corpuscularianism; pneumatic chemistry 1
BirthplaceSourced to the subject's own account
Lismore Castle, County Waterford, Ireland 1
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Robert Boyle (25 January 1627 - 31 December 1691) was an Anglo-Irish natural philosopher, chemist, physicist, alchemist and inventor.
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1. Robert Boyle (Wikipedia)
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Born: 25 January 1627, Lismore Castle, Lismore, County Waterford, Ireland
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Born: 25 January 1627, Lismore Castle, Lismore, County Waterford, Ireland
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Died: 31 December 1691 (aged 64), London, England
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1. Robert Boyle (Wikipedia)
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Died: 31 December 1691 (aged 64), London, England
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Died: 31 December 1691 (aged 64), London, England
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Boyle was born at Lismore Castle in County Waterford, in the far south of Ireland
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Robert Boyle (25 January 1627 - 31 December 1691) was an Anglo-Irish natural philosopher, chemist, physicist, alchemist and inventor.
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Fields: Physics, chemistry
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Known for: Boyle's law, Boyle temperature, Corpuscularianism, Pneumatic chemistry
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the first to stress the importance of reproducibility in science
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