Martin Hans Boyè
Martin Hans Boyè (6 December 1812 – 6 March 1907) was a Danish-American chemist.
Boyè was born in Copenhagen, Denmark on 6 December 1812, son of a chemist in charge of the works of the Royal Porcelain Manufactury. He attended the Copenhagen University and then the Polytechnic School, where he was taught by Johan Georg Forchhammer, graduating with honors in 1835.
At the age of 24, in 1836, Boyè emigrated to New York, and in 1837 moved to Philadelphia where he became a student of Robert Hare.
In 1838 he was employed as a geologist in the New Jersey geological survey under Henry Darwin Rogers.
In 1839 the Journal of the Franklin Institute published an analysis of a specimen of iron ore from "Iron Mountain", Missouri by Rogers and Boye.
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.
In 1840 the American Journal of Science contained an article on 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.
He received an MD degree in 1844 from the University of Pennsylvania, with a graduate thesis on "the Structure of the Nervous System".
He continued to assist Booth until 1845.