Italian scientist who lent his name to a number

Usage examples of avogadro.

At the house of Madame Avogadro, a woman full of wit in spite of her sixty years, I had made the acquaintance of a young Polish nobleman called Zawoiski.

There was a Planck constant governing energy, an Avogadro number giving the number of molecules in a standard volume of gas, a Faraday in electricity and a Stefan-Boltzmann constant in radiation.

In 1811 Avogadro, in answer to the confusing problems of combining chemical weights, invented the molecule.

In 1809, at the age of 33, Avogadro became professor of physics at the Royal College at Vercelli.

Then in 1820, when a chair of mathematical physics was created at the University of Turin, the position was given to Avogadro, but he was not to hold it for long.

Charles Felix died, his successor Charles Albert, reopened the university, and Avogadro resumed his old post.

However, Avogadro was still unknown outside Italy, and Cannizzaro realized that the conference was an opportunity to speak about his theory to an international audience.

Mike Chancey says, and goes to tell Avogadro Pierre that he needs to look for a new line of work.