Lorenzo Avogadro

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  1. Avogadro was born on 9 August 1776 in Turin, being generously named Lorenzo Romano Carlo Avogadro di Quaregua di Cerreto. He came from a noble family, his father being Count Filippo Avogadro. Like many of his family his father was a distinguished lawyer, even his surname being perhaps a corruption of the Italian word for advocate.
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  3. Amedeo Avogadro inherited the title of Count from his father. In fact, Amedeo Avogadro’s full name was Count Lorenzo Romano Amedeo Carlo Avogadro di Quaregna e di Cerreto – quite a mouthful! Avogadro was highly intelligent. In 1796, when he was only 20, he was awarded a doctorate in canon law and began to practice as an ecclesiastical lawyer.
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Amedeo Avogadro, born in Turin, then capital of the Sardinian States, first studied and practiced the law, but his brilliance, intense curiosity and constant adherence to strict logic led to an interest in the physical sciences. In 1820 he became professor of physics at the University of Turin. In 1821 he published (in French) his famous hypothesis, that equal volumes of gases at the same conditions of temperature and pressure contain the same number of molecules. He distinguished atoms from molecules, and proposed that oxygen, nitrogen and hydrogen (among others) had diatomic molecules. Avogadro's number, 6.023 x 1023, is the number of molecules in one gram-molecular weight of a substance. In part because he worked in isolation, the tremendous significance of Avogadro's work was not recognized until nearly half a century after it was first published. The photograph, the only one known, is from a death mask.

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Lorenzo Romano Amedeo Carlo Avogadro di Quaregna e di Cerreto was born on 9 August 1776, in Turin, Piedmont-Sardinia into a noble family. His father was Filippo Avogadro, conte di Quaregna e Cerreto, a distinguished lawyer and senator in the Piedmont region of northern Italy. He was a bright young man who excelled in his studies.

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