Lorenzo Romano Amedeo Carlo Avogadro de Quaregna e di Cerreto - better known as Amedeo Avogadro - was born in Turin, the capital city of Piedmont (now part of northern Italy) on June 9th, 1776. His family's business was the law, and Amedeo followed in his father's footsteps earning a doctorate of law in 1796 (He started college when he was only thirteen, graduated when he was sixteen and had his doctorate by the time he was twenty!).
Books Amedeo Avogadro
While practicing his profession, he became interested in natural philosophy and mathematics, as a sideline or hobby. By the time he was thirty his hobby had become the major part of his life, so he gave up his ecclesiastical legal practice and took up the teaching mathematics and physics at a small college nearby.
Lorenzo Romano Amedeo Carlo Avogadro Di Quaregna E Di Cerreto
He was apparently well liked by his students, who appreciated is impish sense of humor, and quickly settled down into a happy marriage blessed with six sons. In his free time he did a lot of reading and had a complete set of the current scientific journals in his library printed in four different languages.
Lorenzo Romano Amedeo Carlo Avogadro, Count of Quaregna and Cerreto (9 August 1776, Turin, Piedmont-Sardinia – 9 July 1856), was an Italian scientist. His most noted for his contribution to molecular theory now known as Avogadro's law, which states that equal volumes of gases under the same conditions of temperature and pressure will contain. Lorenzo Romano Amedeo Carlo Avogadro, Count of Quaregna and Cerrato, was born into a distinguished legal family in Turin, Italy. His father Count Filippo Avogadro was a lawyer and civil servant who held a number of public offices.