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In a house on this site between 1655 and 1668 lived Robert Boyle. Here he discovered Boyle's Law and made experiments with an air pump designed by his assistant Robert Hooke, inventor, scientist and architect who made a microscope and thereby first identified the living cell
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High St, Oxford

This plaque is on the site of a house where Robert Boyle lived and where he discovered what became known as Boyle's Law.