Amedeo Avogadro

Amedeo Avogadro

Amedeo Carlo Avogadro was born August 9, 1776, but he wasn’t born with this name, his name at birth was actually Lorenzo Romano Amedeo Carlo Avogadro. His father, Filippo Avogadro and mother, Anna Maria Vercellone were happy to bore someone else to go into law just like themselves. He was born in Turin, Italy into a family of renowned lawyers (The Piedmont Family). Avogadro is most well-known and distinguished for his assistance to molecular theory, along with what is known as Avogadro's law. He graduated in ecclesiastical law at the early age of 20. Soon after, he devoted himself and all of his free time to physics and mathematics (then called positive philosophy). In 1809, he started teaching the natural sciences in a liceo (high school) in Vericelli. Not a lot is known about Avogadro's personal life. He had six children and was alleged to be a religious man and also a inconspicuous lady's man. Some chronological records imply that Avogadro sponsored and aided Sardinians scheduling a transformation on that island, stopped by the concession of Charles Albert's modern Constitution (Statuto Albertino). Because of his suspected political actions, Avogadro was removed as professor at Turin University. Officially, the University was "very glad to allow this interesting scientist to take a rest from heavy teaching duties, in order to be able to give a better attention to his researches’’. Nevertheless, doubts remain as to the nature of Avogadro's association with the Sardinians. I guess the world will never know! His wife’s name was Felicita Mazzé, they were married in 1815 and had 6 beautiful children.
The Italian physicist put out the hypothesis that equal volumes of gases under the same conditions of pressure and temperature contain the same number of particles. In 1811, he made the concept of a molecule while experimenting with how oxygen combined with hydrogen to form water. This was Avogadro's law (sometimes referred to as Avogadro's hypothesis or...