Italian Chemist
1. Amedeo Avogadro (1776)
Italian Chemist
Physicist who calculated the number of atoms in twelve grams of carbon-12. Avogadro Constant, the number of elementary entities in 1 mole of a substance is named after him.
2. Emanuele Paternò (1847)
Italian Chemist
Emanuele Paternò di Sessa was an Italian chemist discoverer of the Paternò–Büchi reaction. He was born as the Marquess di Sessa and studied at the University of Palermo with Stanislao...
3. Raffaele Piria (1814)
Italian Chemist
Raffaele Piria an Italian chemist from Scilla lived in Palmi who converted the substance Salicin into a sugar and a second component which on oxidation becomes salicylic acid a major...
4. Stanislao Cannizzaro (1826)
Italian Chemist
Stanislao Cannizzaro ForMemRS was an Italian chemist. He is remembered today largely for the Cannizzaro reaction and for his influential role in the atomic-weight deliberations of the Karlsruhe Congress in...