The Life Of Amadeo Avogadro

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The Life of Amadeo Avogadro

Lorenzo Romano Amadeo Carlo Avogadro, was born in Turin, Italy, on the

9th of August, 1776. He was the son of Count Filippo Avogadro and Anna

Maria Vercellone.

Avogadro's father was a well known lawyer and a civil servant. His father

was made president of the state of Vittorio.

Avogadro went to school in Turin and at the age of twenty he had his

doctrine in ecclesiastical law.  In spite of his successful legal career

Avogadro showed interest in natural philosophy.  In 1800 Avogadro began

is own private studies of mathematics and physics.  Joined with his brother

Felice his first research project was on electricity.

In Avogadro's time chemistry was just becoming an exact science.  John

Dalton was proposing theories about atomic weight etc.  Gay-Lussac found

that the ratio's of volumes of reacting gases were small integer numbers.

These theories made Avogadro start to think about there relationships.  In

1811, Avogadro published an...

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