Inaugural Robert Boyle Summer School set for July

Leading 17th-century Irish scientist Robert Boyle is to be honoured next month with a summer school in his name in Lismore, Co Waterford, where his family were owners of Lismore Castle.

Regarded as the father of modern chemistry, Boyle, who was born in 1627, lived at the castle after his father Richard Boyle, the Earl of Cork, bought it from Elizabethan adventurer Sir Walter Raleigh. He is best known for Boyle’s Law on the relationship between the pressure and volume of a gas.

This year’s inaugural school, running from July 15th to 18th, will feature scientists including Michael Hunter of Birbeck College in London, Lawrence Principe of Johns Hopkins University and Michelle DiMeo of Georgia Tech.