Robert Boyle

Robert Boyle
Robert Boyle (1627–91)
Born	25 January 1627 Lismore, County Waterford, Ireland
Died	31 December 1691 (aged 64) London, England
Known for	Boyle's law, founder of modern chemistry
Awards	Fellow of the Royal Society
Scientific career
Fields	Physics, chemistry
Influences	Robert Carew, Galileo Galilei, Otto von Guericke, Francis Bacon
Influenced	Considered the founder of modern chemistry

Robert Boyle FRS (25 January 1627 – 31 December 1691) was a 17th-century natural philosopher, chemist, physicist, inventor and founding member of the Royal Society.

Boyle was born in Ireland to a titled Anglo-Irish family. He was the fourteenth child of Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork, who had arrived in Ireland in 1588.