Robert+Boyle

**Robert Boyle** (January 25, 1627-December 31, 1691) Robert Boyle was born in Ireland as the 7th son and 14th child of Richard Boyle. With his father being a very intelligent man, Robert was a natural scientist and genius. At 8 years old he went off to Eton College for several years. Before he was 12 years old he studied abroad with a French tutor and studied the great Galileo. After Galileo’s death, Boyle was determined to study astronomy and mechanics. In his later years Robert came up with Boyles Law. The law describes the inversely proportional relationship between the absolute pressure and volume of a gas, if the temp is kept constant in a closed space. This law is part of the Ideal Gas Law which consists of Boyle’s law and three other gas laws, all of which play an important role in chemistry today.