Stanislao cannizzaro (1826-1910)

Italian chemist (1826–1910)

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For the lunar crater, see Cannizzaro (crater).

Stanislao CannizzaroFRS (KAN-iz-AR-oh,^[1]also-⁠it-SAR-,^[2]Italian:[staniˈzlaːokannitˈtsaːro]; 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.^[3]

Biography

Cannizzaro was born in Palermo in 1826.^[4] He entered the university there with the intention of making medicine his profession, but he soon turned to the study of chemistry.

In 1845 and 1846, he acted as assistant to Raffaele Piria (1815–1865), known for his work on salicin, and who was then professor of chemistry at Pisa and subsequently occupied the same position at Turin.^[5]

During the Sicilian revolution of independence of 1848, Cannizzaro served as an artillery officer at Messina Stanislao Cannizzaro (1826 - 1910) - Genealogy - CUXIC