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Traveling
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| Lorenzo Romano Amedeo Carlo Avogadro Count of Quaregna and Cerrato hypothesized that "equal volumes of gases at the same temperature and pressure contain the same number of particles." His hypothesis was not widely accepted until after his death when his fellow countryman Cannizzaro convinced other chemists of its validity. Both Dalton and Berzelius rejected Avogadro's hypothesis which is the main reason why so much controversy surrounded it. Avogadro coined the term "molecule" and defined it as a combination of atoms. The number of molecules in a mole of a substance is 6.022 x 1023 and is known as Avogadro's number. |
| "Secrets of the Gases" from the website Chemistry: A History, by James R. Fromm (1987) |
| A
Biographical Interview with LORENZO ROMANO AMEDEO CARLO AVOGADRO Count
of Quaregna and Cerrato, by
Gayle Brickert-Albrecht Dan Morton |
| Web link #3 (put in descriptive title) |
Some Web Sources on the History of Atomic Scientists:
The
History of Chemistry 1992 Woodrow Wilson Summer Institute
Selected
Classic Papers from the History of Chemistry
Classic
Papers from the History of Chemistry (and Some Physics too)
Classic Chemistry
compiled by Carmen Giunta
History of Science
website by Charlesworth
Center for the History of Physics
Echo Exploring & Collecting
History Online
Atom:
The Incredible World: The History of Atomistics
Nobel Prize WebPage
Biographies
of Famous Chemists, University of Liverpool
University
of Pennsylvania Biographies
Chemistry:
A History
Famous
Scientists greatly who contributed to "electro" science: electricity, electromagnetism,
electrical
technology, electronics, electrical telegraphy, radio, electrochemistry,
electromedicine, etc.
Elements
and Atoms: Case Studies in the Development of Chemistry
| Sacks, Oliver. Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood. Knopf, New York: 2001. | 153-155 |
| Asimov, Isaac. Asimov's Biographical Encyclopedia of Science and Technology. Doubleday, Garden City: 1982 | 277-278 |
| Title of Biography #1 | Title of Biography #2 |
| Description of Site #1 | Address &/or Directions to Site #1 |
| Description of Site #2 | Address &/or Directions to Site #2 |
| Description of Site #3 | Address &/or Directions to Site #3 |
* see following Rodgers link to scientific/historical sites for further information.
(1) Taken from The Scientific Traveler, Charles Tanford and Jacqueline, John Wiley & Sons, NY (1992).
(2) Taken from A Travel Guide to Scientific Sites of the British Isles, Charles Tanford and Jacqueline Reynolds, John Wiley & Sons, NY (1995).
(3) Taken from Guide of Eurpoean Museums with collections on History of Chemistry, compiled by Jan W. van Spronsen, Federation of European Societies, Antwerp (1996)
Links to Dr. Rodgers' Scientific/Historical Sites
will be available here.
| Scientific Historical Traveling |