1776 - 1856
Lorenzo Romano Amedeo Carlo Avogadro, Count of Quaregna and Cerreto (, also US: , Italian: [ameˈdɛːo avoˈɡaːdro]; 9 August 1776 – 9 July 1856) was an Italian scientist, 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 equal numbers of molecules. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Amedeo Avogadro has received more than 860,179 page views. His biography is available in 89 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 86 in 2019). Amedeo Avogadro is the 9th most popular chemist, the 168th most popular biography from Italy (up from 172nd in 2019) and the most popular Italian Chemist.
Amedeo Avogadro is most famous for his work on the law of gases, which states that equal volumes of different gases contain the same number of molecules.
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Among chemists, Amedeo Avogadro ranks 9 out of 510. Before him are Dmitri Mendeleev, Antoine Lavoisier, John Dalton, Robert Boyle, Jabir ibn Hayyan, and Jöns Jacob Berzelius. After him are Linus Pauling, Svante Arrhenius, Fritz Haber, Carl Wilhelm Scheele, Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, and Irène Joliot-Curie.
1834 - 1907
HPI: 88.11
Rank: 3
1743 - 1794
HPI: 86.09
Rank: 4
1766 - 1844
HPI: 84.54
Rank: 5
1627 - 1691
HPI: 82.13
Rank: 6
721 - 815
HPI: 81.75
Rank: 7
1779 - 1848
HPI: 80.94
Rank: 8
1776 - 1856
HPI: 80.74
Rank: 9
1901 - 1994
HPI: 80.26
Rank: 10
1859 - 1927
HPI: 80.06
Rank: 11
1868 - 1934
HPI: 80.05
Rank: 12
1742 - 1786
HPI: 79.87
Rank: 13
1852 - 1911
HPI: 79.52
Rank: 14
1897 - 1956
HPI: 79.05
Rank: 15
Among people born in 1776, Amedeo Avogadro ranks 2. Before him is E. T. A. Hoffmann. After him are Johann Friedrich Herbart, Sophie Germain, John Constable, Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Caroline of Baden, Ioannis Kapodistrias, Archduke Joseph, Palatine of Hungary, Johann Wilhelm Ritter, Pehr Henrik Ling, and Barthold Georg Niebuhr. Among people deceased in 1856, Amedeo Avogadro ranks 3. Before him are Robert Schumann and Heinrich Heine. After him are Adolphe Adam, Max Stirner, Nikolai Lobachevsky, Paul Delaroche, Ivan Paskevich, Ľudovít Štúr, Étienne Cabet, Manuela Sáenz, and 11th Dalai Lama.
1776 - 1822
HPI: 81.16
Rank: 1
1776 - 1856
HPI: 80.74
Rank: 2
1776 - 1841
HPI: 78.21
Rank: 3
1776 - 1831
HPI: 76.78
Rank: 4
1776 - 1837
HPI: 76.36
Rank: 5
1776 - 1810
HPI: 75.29
Rank: 6
1776 - 1841
HPI: 73.61
Rank: 7
1776 - 1831
HPI: 72.19
Rank: 8
1776 - 1847
HPI: 71.82
Rank: 9
1776 - 1810
HPI: 71.09
Rank: 10
1776 - 1839
HPI: 69.52
Rank: 11
1776 - 1831
HPI: 68.31
Rank: 12
1810 - 1856
HPI: 86.35
Rank: 1
1797 - 1856
HPI: 82.87
Rank: 2
1776 - 1856
HPI: 80.74
Rank: 3
1803 - 1856
HPI: 77.22
Rank: 4
1806 - 1856
HPI: 76.60
Rank: 5
1792 - 1856
HPI: 76.55
Rank: 6
1797 - 1856
HPI: 71.43
Rank: 7
1782 - 1856
HPI: 70.47
Rank: 8
1815 - 1856
HPI: 69.45
Rank: 9
1788 - 1856
HPI: 69.40
Rank: 10
1797 - 1856
HPI: 69.04
Rank: 11
1838 - 1856
HPI: 68.88
Rank: 12
Among people born in Italy, Amedeo Avogadro ranks 168 out of 4,088. Before him are Pope Paul V (1552), Lucius Verus (130), Victor Emmanuel III of Italy (1869), Pertinax (126), Pope Leo I (390), and Pope Gregory XII (1335). After him are Pope Sixtus V (1520), Giorgione (1478), Pope Clement XII (1652), Pope Innocent X (1574), Catullus (-84), and Pope Formosus (816).
1552 - 1621
HPI: 80.85
Rank: 162
130 - 169
HPI: 80.82
Rank: 163
1869 - 1947
HPI: 80.82
Rank: 164
126 - 193
HPI: 80.82
Rank: 165
390 - 461
HPI: 80.80
Rank: 166
1335 - 1417
HPI: 80.77
Rank: 167
1776 - 1856
HPI: 80.74
Rank: 168
1520 - 1590
HPI: 80.74
Rank: 169
1478 - 1510
HPI: 80.74
Rank: 170
1652 - 1740
HPI: 80.72
Rank: 171
1574 - 1655
HPI: 80.67
Rank: 172
84 BC - 54 BC
HPI: 80.66
Rank: 173
816 - 896
HPI: 80.65
Rank: 174
Among chemists born in Italy, Amedeo Avogadro ranks 1. After him are Ascanio Sobrero (1812), Giulio Natta (1903), Stanislao Cannizzaro (1826), and Agnes Pockels (1862).
1776 - 1856
HPI: 80.74
Rank: 1
1812 - 1888
HPI: 70.36
Rank: 2
1903 - 1979
HPI: 69.24
Rank: 3
1826 - 1910
HPI: 68.42
Rank: 4
1862 - 1935
HPI: 63.23
Rank: 5