His early work was done at the laboratory of Michel Chevreul, who invented a method making candles with "stearin."
His early work was done at the laboratory of Michel Chevreul, who invented a method making candles with "stearin." Men like Jean Stas helped popularize and promote one of his greatest scientific achievements and in 1891this man received the Copley Medal of the Royal Society, one of the few foreigners so honored. The discoverer of cyanamide, he described an example of disproportianation in his namesake reaction where the presence of a strong alkali converts enzyaldehide to benzoic acid and benzyl alcohol. For ten points, identify this Italian chemist perhaps best known for his elaboration of Avogadro's work on gases.
His early work was done at the laboratory of Michel Chevreul, who invented a method making candles with "stearin."
Stanislao {Cannizaro}