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Stanislao Cannizzaro
(13 Jul 1826 - 10 May 1910)
Italian chemist.
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Science Quotes by Stanislao Cannizzaro (1 quote)
Compare ... the various quantities of the same element contained in the molecule of the free substance and in those of all its different compounds and you will not be able to escape the following law: The different quantities of the same element contained in different molecules are all whole multiples of one and the same quantity, which always being entire, has the right to be called an atom.
— Stanislao Cannizzaro
Sketch of a Course of Chemical Philosophy (1858), Alembic Club Reprint (1910), 11.
Quotes by others about Stanislao Cannizzaro (1)
To Avogadro and Cannizzaro, as to Couper and Kekulé, the molecules and atoms considered in this great theory were real objects: they were thought of the same way as one thinks of tables and chairs.
On the Operational Interpretation of Classical Chemistry', British Journal for the Philosophy of Science (1955), 6, 32. In Mary Jo Nye, From Chemical Philosophy to Theoretical Chemistry (1993), 58
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- 13 Jul - short biography, births, deaths and events on date of Cannizzaro's birth.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
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