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Amedeo Avogadro
Born in Turin, Italy on August 9th 1776
Avogadro's Law/Avogadro's Hypothesis
- Full name: Count Lorenzo Romano Amedeo Carlo Avogadro Di Quarengna e di Cerret
- born into aristorcratic family
- earned first degree in law at 20 and became a lawyer
- but became attracted to mathematics and physics
- Avogadro studied off the work of Gay-Lussac and Dalton
- stated sometime in 1811
- stated that "equal volumes of gases at the same temperature and pressure contain the same number of molecules"
Avogadro's Number
Citations:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WQt7ESjgrQLDNTb1NFRlwzw5fiwu5GmNaWjmQB-jq7M/edit
- the number of atoms in one mole of a substance
- not calculated by Avogadro, but he was the first to think about it
Later years.....
- hypothesis was not accepted
- did not get recognition until after his death
- retired at 74 and died four years later