Avogadro Research Paper

History on Avogadro’s Number Lorenzo Romano Amedeo Carlo Avogadro was born in Turin, Italy, on 9th August, 1776. His family was very wealthy and popular among the people. Even though Avogadro’s family was mostly lawyers, he enjoyed private studies of mathematics and physics. His first scientific research in 1803 was on electricity. After John Dalton published his New System of Chemical Philosophy, more and more additions to the knowledge of chemistry were revealed. In 1811, Avogadro published an article in Journal de physique that clearly drew the distinction between the molecule and the atom. He pointed out that Dalton had confused the concepts of atoms and molecules. The "atoms" of nitrogen and oxygen are in reality "molecules" containing