Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun robert_boyle

1 sense of robert boyle

Sense 1
Boyle, Robert Boyle -- (Irish chemist who established that air has weight and whose definitions of chemical elements and chemical reactions helped to dissociate chemistry from alchemy (1627-1691))
       INSTANCE OF=> chemist -- (a scientist who specializes in chemistry)