Amedeo Avogadro

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6.022* 10^23 this is Amedeo Avogadro's number in any sort of chemistry class this comes in handy to remember.Avogadro was born on August 9, 1776, in Turin Italy and he died on July 9, 1856 In turin, Italy. Avogadro made a law stated that equal volumes of all gases at the same temperature and pressure contain the same number of chemical units. Avogadro's theories were rejected by other chemist until 1858, and at this time An italian chemist Stanislao Cannizzaro had reintroduced it and looked further into it. By the time Amedeo was at the age of twenty he had already received his Ph.D. and in 1820 he became a physics professor at the University of Turin which is the city of where he was born. And he worked at this University for nearly twenty

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