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Authorised form of nameCannizzaro; Stanislao (1826 - 1910)
Dates1826 - 1910
NationalityItalian
Place of birthPalermo, Sicily, Italy
Date of birth13 July 1826
Place of deathRome, Italy
Date of death10/05/1910
Research fieldChemistry
ActivityEducation:
Palermo
Career:
Artillery Officer (during the Sicilian revolution); escaped to Marseilles then went to Paris; Professor of Physical Chemistry, National College, Alexandria (1851); Professor of Chemistry, Geneva (1855); Professor of Inorganic and Organic Chemistry, Palermo (1861); Profession of Chemistry, Rome (1871); researched atomic and molecular weights; Italian Senator; Member of Council of Public Instruction
Membership categoryForeign Member
Date of election05/12/1889
RSActivityMedals and prizes:
Copley Medal 1891
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DSB
References:
Sir Harold Hartley, 'Stanislao Cannizzaro, FRS (1826-1910) and the First International Chemical Conference at Karlsruhe in 1860' in NR 1966 vol 21 pp 56-63
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/59200217
CodeNA2862
Archives associated with this Fellow
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EC/1889/18Cannizzaro, Stanislao: certificate of election to the Royal Society
M/040Cannizzaro, Stanislao? 1896
IM/005677Cannizzaro, Stanislaond
NLB/5/789Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Sir Henry Roscoe, Fellow of the Royal Society13 October 1891
NLB/5/855Copy letter from Archibald Geikie, to Professor Stanislao Cannizzaro, Foreign Member of the Royal Society5 November 1891
NLB/5/857Copy letter from Michael Foster, to the Honorable Sir C W Fremantle5 November 1891
NLB/5/959Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Michael Foster, [Royal Society]23 November 1891
NLB/5/673Copy letter from Theodore E James to Dr Hugo Müller, Fellow of the Royal Society1 September 1891
NLB/13/685Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr Edward Frankland, Foreign Secretary, Royal Society4 November 1896
NLB/17/632Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Monsieur Giuseppe Fanchietti, 55 Torrington Square, W.C. 28 November 1898
NLB/7/97Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Stanislao Cannizzaro, Rome29 November 1892
MC/15/56Letter from Stanislao Cannizzaro, Senato Del Regno, Rome, to [George Gabriel] Stokes, President of the Royal Society26 December 1889
MC/15/233Letter from Stanislao Cannizzaro, Rome, to Archibald Geikie, Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society, London11 November 1891
MC/16/287Letter from Stanislao Cannizzaro, Rome to the President of the Royal Society7 February 1896
MC/15Volume 15 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1889-1892
MC/16Volume 16 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1893-1896
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