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Boyle Points - the story of a gas man

Boyle Points - the story of a gas man

FromThe Function Room


Boyle Points - the story of a gas man

FromThe Function Room

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Length:
39 minutes
Released:
May 1, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

This week Robert Boyle, born in Ireland in the 17th century was one of the world's great scientists. I'm talking about him with Eoin Gill, Eoin Gill is a director of Calmast STEM Engagement Centre at South East Technological University, who likes Robert Boyle so much he made an entire summer school about him. Boyle was a massive deal in the scientific revolution of the 17th century, and his work laid the groundwork for modern chemistry, a founder of the Royal Society, part of a list of big scientific cheeses like Newton and Kepler who discovered the universe was a mathematical and not just a miraculous place.
But for all his science, dabbled in alchemy and sometimes he still just wanted a miracle.
Released:
May 1, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (44)

A podcast about the big numbers, the hard sums, the mathematics that defines, runs, shapes, changes, begins, ends, every things our lives and the world around us. Hosted by Colm O'Regan. An award-winning radio broadcaster, comedian, novelist and it turns out lapsed engineer who is trying to feel useful again. Each episode sheds light on a tiny corner of a giant subject with entertaining guests and accessible talk.