The alchemist Robert Boyle is credited as being the father of chemistry.

Later, those as Robert Boyle, John Mayow, Johann Glauber, Isaac Newton, and Georg Stahl put forward ideas on elective affinity in attempts to explain how heat is evolved during combustion reactions.

A large oil portrait of Wray by Alberta artist Neil Boyle is on display in the Empress Theatre in Fort Macleod, Alberta.

Elizabeth Heger Boyle writes that some organizations refer to it as female genital cutting because that is better received in the communities that practise it, who do not see themselves as engaging in mutilation ; she writes that state-sponsored groups tend to call it FGM while private groups use FGC.

" Boyle writes that the Masai of Tanzania will not call a woman " mother " when she has children if she is uncircumcised.

Neither Dan Boyle or Niall O ' Brolchain were re-elected to Seanad Éireann in the Seanad election of 2011, meaning the Green Party is currently without Oireachtas representation.

* 1660 – At Gresham College, 12 men, including Christopher Wren, Robert Boyle, John Wilkins, and Sir Robert Moray decide to found what is later known as the Royal Society.

The most prominent contemporary natural law jurist, Australian John Finnis, is based in Oxford, but there are also Americans Germain Grisez, Robert P. George, and Canadian Joseph Boyle.

Robert Boyle ( 1627-1691 ): formulated Boyle's law, which describes the inversely proportional relationship between the absolute pressure and volume of a gas ( if the temperature is kept constant within a closed system ), wrote The Sceptical Chymist ( seen as cornerstone book in the field of chemistry ), regarded as the first modern chemist, one of the founders of modern chemistry

The song is dedicated to a Fenian poet named John Boyle O ' Reilly, who was deported to Australia because of his poetry.

** Willard S. Boyle and George Smith invent the CCD at Bell Laboratories ( 30 years later, this technology is widely used in digital cameras ).

It is known that Hooke had a particularly keen eye, and was an adept mathematician, neither of which applied to Boyle.

Regardless, it is clear that Hooke was a valued assistant to Boyle and the two retained a mutual high regard.

Although his research clearly has its roots in the alchemical tradition, Boyle is largely regarded today as the first modern chemist, and therefore one of the founders of modern chemistry, and one of the pioneers of modern experimental scientific method.

Among the critics of the views put forward in this book was a Jesuit, Francis Line ( 1595 – 1675 ), and it was while answering his objections that Boyle made his first mention of the law that the volume of a gas varies inversely to the pressure of the gas, which among English-speaking people is usually called Boyle's Law after his name.

Numeral 70 identifying Boyle, County Roscommon | Boyle, diamond bars for IrelandA cancellation ( or cancel for short ; French: " oblitération ") is a postal marking applied on a postage stamp or postal stationery to deface the stamp and prevent its re-use.

Oliver Cromwell is reported to have said of Richard Boyle ' If there had been an Earl of Cork in every province it would have been impossible for the Irish to have raised a rebellion.

The Boyle motto is: ' God's Providence is my inheritance '.

Notice how such a comparison of these two standpoints is neither exclusively religious nor secular, a factor which perhaps offers some small insight as to how Boyle managed to achieve what seems to us now the extraordinary feat of gaining strong favour at various times with the leaders on either side of the English Civil war.

Boyle erected an elaborate monument to himself, his wives, his mother and children in The Collegiate Church of St Mary Youghal, County Cork and there is a similar but much larger Boyle monument in St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin.

Wayne is called small-time by Benjamin just before he leaves with Cassandra, and Wayne's crazy ex-girlfriend Stacy ( Lara Flynn Boyle ) comes in to announce to Wayne that she is pregnant.

It is also home to Lismore Castle, the birthplace to the " Father of Chemistry ", Robert Boyle ( of Boyle's Law ).

* Lara Flynn Boyle, actress

* 1970 – Lara Flynn Boyle, American actress

* Lara Flynn Boyle ( born 1970 ), U. S. actress

Lara Flynn Boyle ( born March 24, 1970 ) is an American film and television actress best known for her performances as Laura Palmer's best friend Donna Hayward in Twin Peaks and Assistant District Attorney Helen Gamble in The Practice.

Gracie Lantz ( born Grace Boyle on November 7, 1903 – March 17, 1992 ), also known by her stage name Grace Stafford, was an American actress and the wife of animation producer Walter Lantz.

* Maureen O ' Sullivan, Ireland's first international movie star, was born in Boyle, County Roscommon.

* TCM Remembers 2006: Marian Marsh, Elizabeth Allen, Jack Warden, Anthony Franciosa, Tamara Dobson, cinematographer Sven Nykvist, Red Buttons, Alida Valli, Mickey Spillane, director Gordon Parks, director Gillo Pontecorvo, Robert Donner, Darren McGavin, Mako Iwamatsu, Robert O. Cornthwaite, Richard Bright, producer Joseph Stefano, Barnard Hughes, Adrienne Shelly, Chris Penn, Vincent Schiavelli, Arthur Hill, art director Henry Bumstead, Jane Wyatt, Jack Wild, Paul Gleason, composer Malcolm Arnold, songwriter Betty Comden, director Vincent Sherman, Fayard Nicholas, Moira Shearer, Ken Richmond, writer Peter Benchley, Robert Earl Jones, Dennis Weaver, director Richard Fleischer, Don Knotts, Jack Palance, Peter Boyle, Maureen Stapleton, Bruno Kirby, director Robert Altman, June Allyson, Glenn Ford and Shelley Winters

Maury Povich and WNYW news anchors Maureen O ' Boyle and Jim Ryan both served as show hosts during its original run.

* Maureen Cusack as Mary Boyle

It also features Joe Piscopo, Marilu Henner, Maureen Stapleton, Peter Boyle, Griffin Dunne, Dom DeLuise, Danny DeVito, Dick Butkus and Alan Hale, Jr ..

* Maureen O ' Boyle – anchor / correspondent ( 1997 – 2000 ; now evening anchor at WBTV-TV in Charlotte )

She also attacked the O ' Boyle and MacSweeney clans in their holdings in Burtonport, Killybegs and Lough Swilly.

* John Boyle O ' Reilly poet and novelist, member of the Irish Republican Brotherhood.

Mary O. Boyle was the Democratic party nominee.

* John Boyle O ' Reilly

The film also featured Rob Lowe, Tia Carrere, Lara Flynn Boyle, Brian Doyle-Murray, Robert Patrick ( spoofing his role in Terminator 2: Judgment Day ), Chris Farley, Ed O ' Neill, Ione Skye, Meat Loaf, and Alice Cooper.

* Requiem for Homo Economicus Edward J. O ’ Boyle, Mayo Research Institute, a refutation of reductionism in free will using tenets of natural law

See also O ' Boyle Donegal

* John Boyle O ' Reilly ( 1844 – 1890 ), poet, publisher, and member of the Irish Republican Brotherhood

* Maeve O ' Boyle ( born 1987 ), Scottish singer-songwriter

* Chris O ' Dowd ( born 1980 )-an Irish actor born in Boyle, County Roscommon.

Members of the Bloomfield Township Council are Carlos Bernard ( Third Ward ), Elias N. Chalet ( First Ward ), Peggy O ' Boyle Dunigan ( at-large ), Bernard Hamilton ( at-large ), Nicholas Joanow ( Second Ward ) and Michael Venezia ( at-large ).

* Molly O ' Day-Curley Boyle

* Writers Walk-Tim Winton, Joan London, John Boyle O ' Reilly, Xavier Herbert, Kim Scott and their associations with Fremantle

* The poet John Boyle O ' Reilly wrote the following poem when the monument was finally unveiled:

In 1959 he made his musical debut playing Captain Boyle in the ill-fated Marc Blitzstein musical Juno, based on Sean O ' Casey's Juno and the Paycock.

O ' Sullivan was born in Boyle, County Roscommon, Ireland in 1911, the daughter of Mary Lovatt ( née Fraser ) and Charles Joseph O ' Sullivan, an officer in the Connaught Rangers who served in World War I.

* John Boyle O ' Reilly-Moondyne

* Supervisor Patrick O ' Boyle ( Sam McMurray ), Doug's boss

* John Boyle O ' Reilly ( 1844 – 1890 ), Irish poet and novelist

* O ' Boyle

The character Frank Webber in the novel Charles O ' Malley was based on a college friend, Robert Boyle, who later became a clergyman.