Machine translation of the 1948–1954 Italian original. The original text is authoritative.
CANNIZZARO, STANISLAO. - Great Italian chemist, b. July 19, 1826 in Palermo and d. May 10, 1910 in Rome, among the most prominent figures of
CANO, ALONSO - The Virgin contemplating the Child, (Madrid, Prado Gallery).second half of the 19th century. He is especially remembered for the Sunto di un corso di filosofia chimica fatto nell'Università di Genova printed as a letter to Prof. De Luca in Il Nuovo Cimento, 7 (1858), pp. 321-66.
This Sunto, later illustrated by C. at the Karlsruhe Congress (1860), served to clarify the importance of Avogadro's law and to triumph the views of Gerhardt, imposing upon everyone the distinction between molecule and atom and defining with precise concepts of his own what was to be understood by atomic weight. Alongside this universally recognized merit, one must recall his other important contributions to the progress of organic chemistry: suffice it to cite the discovery of the first aromatic alcohol, benzyl alcohol, obtained through a reaction that bears his name, and his research on santonin.
BIBL.: The bibliography of his writings is found at the end of the volume published in 1896 for his seventieth birthday. See above all: Scritti intorno alla teoria molecolare atomica ed alla notazione chimica, Palermo 1896; Scritti vari ed inediti pubblicati nel centenario della nascita, Roma 1926. Literature: G. Provenzal, Profili bibliografici di chimici italiani, Roma 1938, pp. 195-200. Giulio Provenzal
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“CANNIZZARO, STANISLAO.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. III (1949), p. 332. Azione Romana digital edition, https://azioneromana.com/article/cannizzaro-stanislao.
