[1] 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.

[2] 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.

[3] 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 was Chair of Chemistry in Central High, Philadelphia, from 1851 to 1859, when he resigned due to poor health.