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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>
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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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==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}}. [http://web.lemoyne.edu/~giunta/avogadro.html English translation]
 
*{{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==
 
{{wikipedia|Amedeo Avogadro}}
 
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Revision as of 16:13, 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>.

Selected writings

External links

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