CHEMIST

Amedeo Avogadro

1776 - 1856

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Lorenzo Romano Amedeo Carlo Avogadro, Count of Quaregna and Cerreto (, also US: , Italian: [ameˈdɛːo avoˈɡaːdro]; 9 August 1776 – 9 July 1856) was an Italian scientist, most noted for his contribution to molecular theory now known as Avogadro's law, which states that equal volumes of gases under the same conditions of temperature and pressure will contain equal numbers of molecules. In tribute to him, the ratio of the number of elementary entities (atoms, molecules, ions or other particles) in a substance to its amount of substance (the latter having the unit mole), 6.02214076×1023 mol−1, is known as the Avogadro constant. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Amedeo Avogadro is the 8th most popular chemist, the 143rd most popular biography from Italy (down from 108th in 2019) and the most popular Italian Chemist.

Amedeo Avogadro is most famous for his work on the law of gases, which states that equal volumes of different gases contain the same number of molecules.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Amedeo Avogadro ranks 8 out of 602. Before him are Alfred Nobel, Dmitri Mendeleev, Antoine Lavoisier, John Dalton, Jabir ibn Hayyan, and Irène Joliot-Curie. After him are Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, Robert Boyle, Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, Emil Fischer, Svante Arrhenius, and John Stith Pemberton.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1776, Amedeo Avogadro ranks 1. After him are E. T. A. Hoffmann, Johann Friedrich Herbart, Sophie Germain, John Constable, Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Caroline of Baden, Ioannis Kapodistrias, Archduke Joseph, Palatine of Hungary, Şehzade Abdullah, Johann Wilhelm Ritter, and Prince William Frederick, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh. Among people deceased in 1856, Amedeo Avogadro ranks 3. Before him are Robert Schumann, and Heinrich Heine. After him are Max Stirner, Nikolai Lobachevsky, Adolphe Adam, Paul Delaroche, John Ross, Ivan Paskevich, Étienne Cabet, Ľudovít Štúr, and Florestan I, Prince of Monaco.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Amedeo Avogadro ranks 143 out of 5,161. Before him are Pope Alexander VII (1599), Pope Marcellus II (1501), Pope Formosus (816), Pope Paul IV (1476), Lucius Verus (130), and Ennio Morricone (1928). After him are Zeno of Elea (-490), Pope Gregory XIV (1535), Antoninus Pius (86), Pope Nicholas V (1397), Paolo Veronese (1528), and Pope Clement X (1590).

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Among CHEMISTS In Italy

Among chemists born in Italy, Amedeo Avogadro ranks 1. After him are Giulio Natta (1903), Stanislao Cannizzaro (1826), Ascanio Sobrero (1812), Édouard Herzen (1877), and Agnes Pockels (1862).

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