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Stanislao Cannizzaro

Stanislao Cannizzaro

1826 CE1910 CE · Sicily, Italy

Stanislao Cannizzaro ( KAN-iz-AR-oh, US also -⁠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.

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Sicily, the large island off southern Italy. In the 7th-8th centuries its Greek-speaking, monastically dense church produced several popes of the so-called Byzantine papacy, including Agatho and Sergius I.

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