Scientists whose most historically significant work is in chemistry: the composition, structure, properties and reactions of substances, spanning organic, inorganic, physical and analytical chemistry. Does not include biochemists whose primary subject is the chemistry of living systems when their most significant legacy sits in Life Sciences, nor physicists whose work touches chemical bonding only incidentally to a physical theory.
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Robert Boyle, although skeptical of elements and convinced of alchemy, played a key part in elevating the "sacred art" as an independent, fundamental and philosophical discipline in his work The Sceptical Chymist (1661).
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