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  1. 1627-1691. Irish physicist and chemist, who
  2. published the seminal The Skeptical Chymist
  3. 1661. He was the first chemist to collect a
  4. sample of gas,
  5. formulated Boyle's law on the compressibility
  6. of a gas in 1662, was one of the founders of
  7. the Royal Society, and endowed the Boyle
  8. Lectures for the defence of Christianity.
  9.