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'''Lorenzo Romano Amedeo Carlo Avogadro di Quaregna e Cerreto''' (9 August 1776 – 9 July 1856) was an Italian intellectual, best known for his work in chemistry.<ref>{{citation | first = Icilio | last = Guareschi | contribution = Amedeo Avogadro e la sua opera scientifica | title = Opere scelte di Amedeo Avogadro | url = http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k90576f.langEN | publisher = Reale Accademia delle Scienze | location = Turin | year = 1911 | pages = i–cxl}}.</ref>
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'''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.<ref>{{citation | first = Icilio | last = Guareschi | contribution = Amedeo Avogadro e la sua opera scientifica | title = Opere scelte di Amedeo Avogadro | url = http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k90576f.langEN | publisher = Reale Accademia delle Scienze | location = Turin | year = 1911 | pages = i–cxl}}.</ref><ref>{{EB11 | article = Avogadro, Amedeo | volume = 3 | page = 66 | wikisource = Avogadro,_Amedeo,_Conte_di_Quaregna}}.</ref>
  
 
==Notes and references==
 
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===References===
 
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==Further reading==
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*{{DSB | last = Crosland | first = M. P. | title = Avogadro, Amedeo | volume = 1 | pages = 343–50}}.
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*{{citation | last = Morselli | first = Mario | year = 1984 | title = Amedeo Avogadro, a Scientific Biography | publisher = Kluwer | location = Amsterdam | isbn = 9027716242}}.
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*{{citation | last1 = Hinshelwood | first1 = C. N. | authorlink1 = Cyril Hinshelwood | last2 = Pauling | first2 = L. | authorlink2 = Linus Pauling | title = Amedeo Avogadro | journal = Science | year = 1956 | volume = 124 | pages = 708–13 | doi = 10.1126/science.124.3225.708}}.
  
 
==Selected writings==
 
==Selected writings==
*{{citation | first = A. | last = Avogadro | authorlink = Amedeo Avogadro | title = Essai d'une manière de déterminer les masses relatives des molécules élémentaires des corps, et les proportions selon lesquelles elles entrent dans les combinaisons | journal = J. Phys. Chim. Hist. Nat. | year = 1811 | volume = 73 | pages = 58–76 | url = http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k90576f.image.f150.langEN}}.
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*{{citation | first = A. | last = Avogadro | authorlink = Amedeo Avogadro | title = Essai d'une manière de déterminer les masses relatives des molécules élémentaires des corps, et les proportions selon lesquelles elles entrent dans les combinaisons | journal = J. Phys. Chim. Hist. Nat. | year = 1811 | volume = 73 | pages = 58–76 | url = http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k90576f.image.f150.langEN}}. [http://web.lemoyne.edu/~giunta/avogadro.html English translation]
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* {{citation | first = A. | last = Avogadro | authorlink = Amedeo Avogadro | title = Mémoire sur les masses relatives des molécules des corps simples | journal = J. Phys. Chim. Hist. Nat. | year = 1814 | volume = 78 | pages = 131–56}}.
  
 
==External links==
 
==External links==
 
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Latest revision as of 16:38, 27 March 2011

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

External links

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