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While his common name is simply "Avogadro,"this odd-looking scientist's full name is Lorenzo Romano Amedeo Carlo Bernadette Avogadro di Quaregna e Cerreto. Avogadro was born in Turin, Italy August 9th of

 1776 to a noble family, and he died there a month shy of his 80th birthday on July 9th of 1856. His main  contribution to science iswhat is now known as "Avogadro's Law."In this,

 Avogadro states that equal volumes of gases, at the same temperature and pressure, contain the same number of molecules. This idea was not accepted or appriciated by society until after his death in 1858. It  was then that chemist Stanislao Cannizzaro proved Avogadro's Law.

Another contribution , widely regarded as his most important, was Avogadro's theory of the difference of atoms and molecules. He insisted that molecules, already a very small particles, could be made of even smaller units -- atoms. Avogadro's constant, also named Avogadro's number, relates the the number of molecules in a mole (a gram of molecular weight). Over the years, this ratio has been calculated to be 6.023x10^3 molecules per gram-mole.