Amedeo Avogadro
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Amedeo Avogadro was a 19th-century Italian scientist best known for formulating Avogadro's law, which laid the foundation for the concept of the mole and the Avogadro constant in chemistry.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Amedeo Avogadro canonical | 8 |
| Avogadro | 2 |
| Amedeo Avogadro (English) | 1 |
| Amedeo Avogadro (Italian) | 1 |
| Lorenzo Romano Amedeo Carlo Avogadro | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T244369 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
Target entity: Amedeo Avogadro Context triple: [Avogadro constant, isNamedAfter, Amedeo Avogadro]
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A.
Antoine Lavoisier
Antoine Lavoisier was an 18th-century French chemist widely regarded as the "father of modern chemistry" for his pioneering work on the law of conservation of mass and the nature of chemical reactions.
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Jean Perrin
Jean Perrin was a French physicist who confirmed the atomic nature of matter through his pioneering experimental studies of Brownian motion, work for which he received the 1926 Nobel Prize in Physics.
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C.
Ludwig Boltzmann
Ludwig Boltzmann was an Austrian physicist and one of the founders of statistical mechanics, whose work established the statistical nature of thermodynamics and the microscopic interpretation of entropy.
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D.
Henry Cavendish
Henry Cavendish was an 18th-century British natural philosopher and chemist best known for discovering hydrogen and precisely measuring the density of the Earth.
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E.
André-Marie Ampère
André-Marie Ampère was a pioneering French physicist and mathematician whose work in electromagnetism led to the naming of the unit of electric current, the ampere, in his honor.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Amedeo Avogadro Target entity description: Amedeo Avogadro was a 19th-century Italian scientist best known for formulating Avogadro's law, which laid the foundation for the concept of the mole and the Avogadro constant in chemistry.
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A.
Antoine Lavoisier
Antoine Lavoisier was an 18th-century French chemist widely regarded as the "father of modern chemistry" for his pioneering work on the law of conservation of mass and the nature of chemical reactions.
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B.
Jean Perrin
Jean Perrin was a French physicist who confirmed the atomic nature of matter through his pioneering experimental studies of Brownian motion, work for which he received the 1926 Nobel Prize in Physics.
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C.
Ludwig Boltzmann
Ludwig Boltzmann was an Austrian physicist and one of the founders of statistical mechanics, whose work established the statistical nature of thermodynamics and the microscopic interpretation of entropy.
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D.
Henry Cavendish
Henry Cavendish was an 18th-century British natural philosopher and chemist best known for discovering hydrogen and precisely measuring the density of the Earth.
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E.
André-Marie Ampère
André-Marie Ampère was a pioneering French physicist and mathematician whose work in electromagnetism led to the naming of the unit of electric current, the ampere, in his honor.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
chemist
ⓘ
human ⓘ physicist ⓘ scientist ⓘ |
| birthName |
Amedeo Avogadro
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Lorenzo Romano Amedeo Carlo Avogadro
|
| centuryOfActivity | 19th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Italy
ⓘ
Kingdom of Sardinia ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1776-08-09 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1856-07-09 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | University of Turin ⓘ |
| era | 19th-century science ⓘ |
| familyName |
Amedeo Avogadro
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Avogadro
|
| fieldOfWork |
chemistry
ⓘ
molecular theory ⓘ physics ⓘ |
| givenName | Amedeo ⓘ |
| hasConceptNamedAfter |
Avogadro constant
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Avogadro constant ⓘ
surface form:
Avogadro's number
|
| hasHonorificTitle | Count ⓘ |
| hasLawNamedAfter | Avogadro's law ⓘ |
| hasNameInLanguage |
Amedeo Avogadro
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Amedeo Avogadro (English)
Amedeo Avogadro self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Amedeo Avogadro (Italian)
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| influenced |
development of atomic theory
ⓘ
development of molecular theory ⓘ kinetic theory of gases ⓘ stoichiometry in chemistry ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Avogadro constant (conceptual foundation)
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Avogadro constant ⓘ
surface form:
Avogadro's law
concept of the mole in chemistry (foundation) ⓘ |
| livedIn | Turin ⓘ |
| memberOf |
University of Turin
ⓘ
surface form:
University of Turin faculty
|
| nationality | Italian ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | Italian ⓘ |
| notableIdea | equal volumes of gases at the same temperature and pressure contain equal numbers of molecules ⓘ |
| occupation |
chemist
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lawyer ⓘ physicist ⓘ professor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Kingdom of Sardinia
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Turin ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Turin ⓘ |
| positionHeld | professor of mathematical physics at the University of Turin ⓘ |
| religion | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| studied |
law
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mathematics ⓘ physics ⓘ |
| workLocation | Turin ⓘ |
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Subject: Amedeo Avogadro Description of subject: Amedeo Avogadro was a 19th-century Italian scientist best known for formulating Avogadro's law, which laid the foundation for the concept of the mole and the Avogadro constant in chemistry.
Referenced by (13)
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