Robert Boyle
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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
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.... more interested in medicine.
His curiosity in this field led him to chemistry. At first Boyle was mainly
interested in the facet of chemistry that dealt with the preparation of drugs,
but soon he became genuinely interested in the subject and started to study it
in great detail. His studies led him to Oxford where he joined such scientists
as John Wilkins and John Wallis, and together in 1660, they founded the Royal
Society of London for the Advancement of Science.
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