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Anaximander
Anaximander
A pre-Socratic Greek philosopher
Walter Raleigh
Walter Raleigh
An English statesman, soldier, spy, writer, poet, explorer and landed gentleman who played a lead...
Niels Bohr
Niels Bohr
A Danish physicist who made foundational contributions to atomic structure and quantum theory, fo...
Hipparchus
Hipparchus
A Greek astronomer, geographer, and mathematician who is considered the founder of trigonometry a...
How Was Avogadro’s Number Determined?

How Was Avogadro’s Number Determined?

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Contrary to the beliefs of generations of chemistry students, Avogadro’s number—the number of particles in a unit known as a mole—was not discovered by Amadeo Avogadro (1776-1856). Avogadro was a lawyer who became interested in mathematics and physics, and in 1820 he became the first professor of physics in Italy. Avogadro is most famous for his hypothesis that equal volumes of different gases at the same temperature and pressure contain the same number of particles.The first person to estimate the actual number of particles in a given amount of a substance was Josef Loschmidt, an Au...

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