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AVOGADRO, AMEDEO, Conte Di Quaregna (1776-1856), Italian
physicist, was born at Turin on the 9th of June 1776, and died
there on the 9th of July 1856. He was for many years professor
of higher physics in Turin University. He published many
physical memoirs on electricity, the dilatation of liquids by
heat, specific heats, capillary attraction, atomic volumes &c.
as well as a treatise in 4 volumes on Fisica di corpi
ponderabili (1837-1841). But he is chiefly remembered for his
"Essai d'une manière de déterminer les masses relatives des
molécules élémentaires des corps, et les proportions selon
lesquelles elles entrent dans les combinaisons" (Journ. de
Phys., 1811), in which he enunciated the hypothesis known by his
name (Avogadro's rule) that under the same conditions