Robert Boyle Robert Boyle. The following are some of the more important of his works: Among his religious and philosophical writings were: Robert Boyle Robert Boyle (; 25 January 1627 – 31 December 1691) was an Anglo-Irish natural philosopher, chemist, physicist, and inventor. Boyle is largely regarded today as the first modern chemist, and therefore one of the founders of modern chemistry, and one of the pioneers of modern experimental scientific method. He is best known for Boyle's law, which describes the inversely proportional relationship between the absolute pressure and volume of a gas, if the temperature is kept constant within a
Electron degeneracy pressure temperature. Electrons are part of a family of particles known as fermions. Fermions like the proton or the neutron follow Pauli's principle and Fermi–Dirac statistics. In general, for an ensemble of non-interacting fermions, also known as Fermi gas, each particle can be treated independently with an energy given by the purely kinetic term, where is the momentum of one particle and its mass. Every possible momentum state of an electron within this volume up to the Fermi momentum being occupied. The degeneracy pressure at zero temperature can be computed as where "V" is the total volume of the system and