Chemistry

Robert Boyle is considered both the founder of modern chemistry and the greatest English scientist to live during the first thirty years of the existence of the Royal Society. He was not only a chemist and a physicist as we know him to be, but also an avid theologian, a philanthropist, an essayist, and a beginner in medicine. Born in Lismore, Ireland to Richard Boyle, first earl of Cork, and Katherine Fenton, his second wife, …

…He wrote numerous books on religious subjects, not all of which were related to science, but the most influential being so. At his death in the December of 1691, Boyle left a sum of money for the foundation of the Boyle lectures, a group of sermons that were intended for the disputation of atheism. Robert Boyle opened the way for future scientists, changing their methods of experimentation, thought, and outlook on chemistry as a whole, forever.