Amedeo Avogadro

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Amedeo Avogadro
Born 9 August 1776(1776-08-09)
Turin, Piedmont
Died 9 July 1856 (aged 79)
Turin, Piedmont
Institutions Reale Collegio di Vercelli
University of Turin
Known for Avogadro's law

Lorenzo Romano Amedeo Carlo Avogadro di Quaregna e di Cerreto (9 August 1776 – 9 July 1856) was an Italian intellectual, best known for his work in chemistry.[1][2]

Notes and references

Notes

References

  1. Guareschi, Icilio Amedeo Avogadro e la sua opera scientifica. In Opere scelte di Amedeo Avogadro; Reale Accademia delle Scienze: Turin, 1911; pp i–cxl, <http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k90576f.langEN>.
  2. Avogadro, Amedeo. In Encyclopædia Britannica, 11th ed.; University Press: Cambridge, 1911; Vol. 3, p 66, <http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Avogadro%2C_Amedeo%2C_Conte_di_Quaregna>.

Further reading

  • Crosland, M. P. Avogadro, Amedeo. In Dictionary of Scientific Biography; Scribner: New York, 1970; Vol. 1, pp 343–50. ISBN 0684169622.
  • Morselli, Mario Amedeo Avogadro, a Scientific Biography; Kluwer: Amsterdam, 1984. ISBN 9027716242.
  • Hinshelwood, C. N.; Pauling, L. Amedeo Avogadro. Science 1956, 124, 708–13. DOI: 10.1126/science.124.3225.708.

Selected writings

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