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Amedeo Avogadro  by Obinnam614

Early life Amedeo Avogadro was born in Turin, Italy. (born Aug. 9, 1776, [|Turin], —died July 9, 1856, Turin)


 * Amedeo Avogadro came from a long line of lawyers, and used to be a lawyer, too
 * Studied electricity
 * He was invited to the Academy of sciences



Contribution
 * Amedeo Avogadro was a founder of physical chemistry
 * . He discovered that all gases of equal volume and temperature had the same amount of molecules
 * Avogadro determined the amount of elementary entities in the mole of a substance (6.02214129 ± 0.00000027) × 1023



Family ties
 * Amedeo married Felicita Mazzé of Biella in 1815
 * They had 6 kids
 * Son of Filippo Avogadro

Cite: Coley, Noel G., “Amedeo Avogadro” [|www.] Britannica School, 2013. Web. 9-20-2013 Daintith, John, Ed.” Avogadro, Amedeo.” //The Grolier library of science biographies vol.1//. Danbury: Grolier, 1997.print Levine, Ira N. “Avogadro’s number” // [|www.accessscience.com] // ©McGraw-Hill Education, 2012, Web, 9-20-2013.