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Famous Irish Scientists

With a population of just over four million, it often surprises people when they learn that Ireland is the twentieth largest island on earth. The reason that this is surprising is that the Emerald Isle has a historical influence that far outweighs its small population and size. In this article we are going to discuss famous Irish scientists and MovingOn Courses in Ireland.

Often called the Father of Chemistry, Robert Boyle was the first to question the scientific merits of Alchemy in the mid-fifteenth century. Instead of focusing on miracles and magic, Boyle defined chemistry as the study of the composition of substances. He also coined the term 'analysis' and introduced Boyle's Law, which holds that the pressure and volume of gases are inversely related.

George Boole was another famous Irish scientist who is often called the father of his field of study. Because he developed his own system of Algebra, which was used to program the first computers, Boole is often referred to as the Father of Computer Science.

Born in Belfast, William Thomson became one of the greatest scientists of the 19th century. While working as a professor of Physics at Glasgow University, he developed the absolute scale of temperature that he would later name the Kelvin scale. His groundbreaking work on energy conversion also led to his famous Second Law of Thermodynamics.

The last Irish scientist that we will talk about today is George Johnstone Stoney. While not a household name, Stoney was the first to proffer the concept of the atom of electricity, which he called the electron.