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Stanislao Cannizzaro, FRS (July 13, 1826 – May 10, 1910) was an Italian
Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
 chemist
Chemist

A chemist is a scientist trained in the science of chemistry. Chemists study the composition of matter and its properties such as density, acidity, size and shape....
. He is remembered today largely for the Cannizzaro reaction
Cannizzaro reaction

The Cannizzaro reaction, named after its discoverer Stanislao Cannizzaro, is a chemical reaction that involves the base -induced disproportionation of an aldehyde lacking a hydrogen atom in the alpha position....
 and for his influential role in the atomic-weight deliberations of the Karlsruhe Congress
Karlsruhe Congress

The Karlsruhe Congress was an international meeting of chemists held in Karlsruhe, Germany from September 3, 1860 to September 5, 1860....
 in 1860.








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Stanislao Cannizzaro, FRS (July 13, 1826 – May 10, 1910) was an Italian
Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
 chemist
Chemist

A chemist is a scientist trained in the science of chemistry. Chemists study the composition of matter and its properties such as density, acidity, size and shape....
. He is remembered today largely for the Cannizzaro reaction
Cannizzaro reaction

The Cannizzaro reaction, named after its discoverer Stanislao Cannizzaro, is a chemical reaction that involves the base -induced disproportionation of an aldehyde lacking a hydrogen atom in the alpha position....
 and for his influential role in the atomic-weight deliberations of the Karlsruhe Congress
Karlsruhe Congress

The Karlsruhe Congress was an international meeting of chemists held in Karlsruhe, Germany from September 3, 1860 to September 5, 1860....
 in 1860.

See also

  • Cannizzaro reaction
    Cannizzaro reaction

    The Cannizzaro reaction, named after its discoverer Stanislao Cannizzaro, is a chemical reaction that involves the base -induced disproportionation of an aldehyde lacking a hydrogen atom in the alpha position....


External links


  • by Cannizzaro (1858) - Edinburgh: Alembic Club Reprint No. 18 (1911).


by Thomas Edward Thorpe in Essays in Historical Chemistry, London: Macmillan, pages 500 – 513 (also Nature, May 6, 1897).

  • George B. Kauffman, (1996). , a set of Cannizzaro's papers