By: Shannen Seikhon & Kary Herar
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Born in County Waterford, Ireland on January 25th 1627
Eton college
Founder of the “Invisible College”
Died on December 31st 1691
• Published by Robert Boyle in 1622
• Law:
For a fixed amount of a gas kept at a fixed temperature,
P (pressure) and V (volume) are inversely proportional
• Equation:
pV = k
• Published in 1661
• Presented Boyle’s hypothesis
• Boyle believed all theories must be proved before being
regarded as true
• Therefore, he is called the “Founder of Modern Chemistry”
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Boyle
• http://www.woodrow.org/teachers/ci/1992/boyle.html
• http://www.chemheritage.org/discover/onlineresources/chemistry-in-history/themes/early-chemistry-andgases/boyle.aspx
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boyle's_law
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sceptical_Chymist