Avogadro, Lorenzo Romano Amadeo

Avogadro s law, referred to on page 107, was proposed in 1811 by an Italian physicist at the University of Turin with the improbable name of Lorenzo Romano Amadeo Carlo Avogadro di Quarequa e di Cerreto (1776-1856). 

Lorenzo Romano Amadeo Carlo Avogadro, Essay on a Manner of Dermining the Relative Masses of the Elementary Molecules of Bodies, and the Proportions in Which They Enter Into These Compounds, Journal de Physique, de Chimie et d Histoire naturelle, vol. 73, (1811) 58. Translation from Alembic Club Reprints, No. 4, Foundations of the Molecular Theory Comprising Papers and Extracts by John Dalton, Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, and Amadeo Avogadro, (1808-1811), available at dbhs.wvusd.kl2.ca.us/ webdocs/Chem-History/Avogadro.html. 

Lorenzo Romano Amadeo Carlo Avogadro, 1776-1856, was an Italian lawyer and professor of natural philosophy. He was the first to postulate that equal volumes of gases under the same conditions contained the same number of molecules. 

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