[Photo of plaque]

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


Inscription by Edmund J. Bowen, FRS (1898-1980), a former Fellow and Paelector in Chemistry at Univ. (1922-1965), on a stone plaque inlaid into the wall of what is now Shelley's Memorial at University College in the High Street, Oxford. The photograph of the plaque above includes Dr. Bowen's great granddaughters, Alice and Emma, and his grandson, Jonathan Bowen.

See also: [Portrait of Robert Boyle]

This information is brought to you by Jonathan Bowen as part of the information on University College in the Oxford information service of the OUCL archive.

Additions, corrections and other suggestions are welcome.

jonathan.bowen@university-college.oxford.ac.uk