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Amedeo Avogadro was a multifaceted and prolific scientist active in many areas of physics and chemistry, but most of his results did not make a scientific impact. His hypothesis, “equal volumes = equal number of molecules” remained in obscurity until Cannizaro rekindled it by making it a stepping-stone in the development of the atomic theory.
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Wisniak, J. Amedeo Avogadro The Man, the Hypothesis, and the Number. Chem. Educator 5, 263–268 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00897000420a
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