Martin Hans Boyè

Martin Hans Boyè (6 December 1812 – 6 March 1907) was a Danish-American chemist. In 1840, the same journal published a paper by Robert E. and Martin Boye on the determination of the presence of calcium using sulphuric acid. That same year, the American Journal of Science contained a note about a new compound of platinum discovered by Rogers and his friend Boyè. Boyè continued his studies of chemistry in the laboratory of James Curtis Booth.

In 1847, Boyè invented a method of refining cottonseed oil, and later he entered into large-scale production of this oil for cooking and as an ingredient in toilet soap. His research included development of perchloric ether used as a smokeless gunpowder, analysis of feldspar, a treatise on the composition of water in the Schuylkill River, an analysis of concretion from a horse's stomach, analysis of Chinese artificially colored tea, and an investigation of the Aurora Borealis. Boyè was Chair of Chemistry in Central High, Philadelphia, from 1851 to 1859, when he resigned due to poor health. He was a member of the American Philosophical Society and the American Association of Geologists.