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ON DISCOVERY AND DEVELOPMENT                          


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Robert Boyle (1627 – 1691)


Born in Lismore, Co Waterford, in 1627, Robert Boyle was a chemist, physicist, inventor and natural philosopher. Regarded by many as the world’s first modern chemist, he is best known for Boyle’s Law, which defines the inverse proportional relationship with the pressure and volume of a gas.


William Hamilton (1805 – 1865)


Astronomer, physicist and mathematician William Rowan Hamilton was a prolific theorist


in fields including mechanics, optics and algebra. Best known as the inventor of quaternions


(a number system that extends the complex numbers, and applies to mechanics in three- dimensional space) Hamilton was born in Dublin, where he attended Trinity College.


Kathleen Lonsdale (1903 – 1971)


The godmother of women in STEM, Dame


Kathleen Lonsdale was an Irish crystallographer hailing from Newbridge, Co Kildare. A pioneer of


the use of X-rays to study crystal, she was the first woman president of the International Union of


Crystallography and of the British Association for the Advancement of Science.


John Tyndall (1820 – 1893)


Among his many scientific


innovations and discoveries, John Tyndall is the man who explained why the sky is blue. A fêted 19th century experimental physicist,


writer and educator, he was born in Carlow’s Leighlinbridge in 1820.


Ernest Walton (1903 – 1995)


The first person to


artificially split the atom, Ernest Walton was the recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1951.


An alum of Trinity College Dublin and the University of Cambridge, Walton was born in Abbeyside, Co Waterford.


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