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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Born
13 July 1826 Palermo, Italy
Died
10 May 1910 (aged 83)
Known for
Cannizzaro reaction
Fields
Chemistry
Awards
Faraday Lectureship Prize (1872) Copley Medal (1891)
adultbasic
Italy
era
1800+