Robert Boyle and Robert Hooke, University College, Oxford

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 Praelector 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 full photograph of the plaque above includes Dr. Bowen's great granddaughters, Alice and Emma, daughters of his grandson, Jonathan Bowen.

The Sherardian Professor of Botany, Dr. C. D. Darlington, originally proposed the plaque towards the end of 1964. Dr. C. H. Josten, the Curator of the Museum of the History of Science, also helped. A brief article appeared in the 1965 issue of the University College Record, on pages 322-323.