Stanislao Cannizzaro
1826
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1910
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country of citizenship: Kingdom of Italy
languages spoken, written or signed: Italian
educated at: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía
occupation: chemist, university teacher, politician
award received: Copley Medal, Faraday Lectureship Prize, Foreign Member of the Royal Society
position held: senator of the Kingdom of Italy
Stanislao Cannizzaro ( KAN-iz-AR-oh, also US: -it-SAR-, Italian: [staniˈzlaːo kannitˈtsaːro]; 13 July 1826 – 10 May 1910) was an Italian chemist. He is famous for the Cannizzaro reaction and for his influential role in the atomic-weight deliberations of the Karlsruhe Congress in 1860. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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