Robert Boyle
1627 – 1691
Founding chemist; pressure and volume vary inversely.
An Anglo-Irish natural philosopher and founding member of the Royal Society, Boyle established in 1662 that a gas's pressure and volume vary inversely — the first of the gas laws — and argued for chemistry as an experimental science.
The ideal-gas and gas-density tools here begin with Boyle's law. He insisted that claims be settled by experiment, not authority — the founding attitude of the whole enterprise.
Portrait: a stylized blueprint-line rendering, not a photograph.
Contributions in the toolbox
- 1662
P·V constant at fixed temperature.
→ SCFM ⇄ ACFM - 1662
PV = constant at fixed temperature.
→ Ideal Gas Law (PV = nRT)