IN a tribute to Robert Boyle (March 6), you state that Ireland has produced a Nobel prizewinner for chemistry. I cannot find any evidence of this.
As far as I am aware the one and only Irish science Nobel laureate is ETS Walton who shared the Nobel prize for physics in 1951. Incidentally, Walton, like Boyle, was born in Co Waterford (Abbeyside, Dungarvan). Waterford may have difficulty in adding to its stock of All-Ireland hurling titles, but the county certainly seems to be fertile ground for producing great scientists.
Oliver Broderick Ashe Street Youghal Co Cork
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This appeared in the printed version of the Irish Examiner Monday, March 15, 2010
