A surname; most famously associated with Robert Boyle, the 17th-century scientist known for Boyle's Law relating gas pressure and volume.
Irish surname from Ó Baoighill, meaning 'descendant of Baoigheall.' The name Baoigheall possibly derives from Irish baoghal meaning 'danger' or 'peril.'
Robert Boyle was called the 'father of chemistry' for helping establish it as a rigorous science separate from alchemy. His famous law states that gas pressure and volume are inversely related - squeeze a gas into half the space and the pressure doubles.
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