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    Ascanio Sobrero (12 October 1812 – 26 May 1888) was an Italian chemist, born in Casale Monferrato. He studied under Théophile-Jules Pelouze at the University...
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    compound, but the traditional name is retained. Discovered in 1847 by Ascanio Sobrero, nitroglycerin has been used as an active ingredient in the manufacture...
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  • 1986), musician. Leone Sinigaglia (1868–1944), composer, mountaineer. Ascanio Sobrero (1812–1888), chemist, discovered Nitroglycerin. Mario Soldati (1906–1999)...
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    studied under famed chemist Théophile-Jules Pelouze and his pupil Ascanio Sobrero, who had first synthesized nitroglycerin in 1847. Pelouze cautioned...
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    reloading difficult. Nitroglycerine was synthesized by the Italian chemist Ascanio Sobrero in 1847.: 195  It was subsequently developed and manufactured by Alfred...
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  • 19 – Julius Rockwell, United States politician (b. 1805) May 26 – Ascanio Sobrero, Italian chemist (b. 1812) June 7 – Edmond Le Bœuf, French general...
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    almost from the time of the first synthesis of glyceryl trinitrate by Ascanio Sobrero in 1846 that handling and tasting of nitroglycerin could cause sudden...
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    Paris to further the work. There he met Ascanio Sobrero, who had invented nitroglycerin three years before. Sobrero strongly opposed the use of nitroglycerin...
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    and Marco Minghetti. In the same year, he married Rosa Sobrero, the niece of Ascanio Sobrero, a famous chemist, who discovered nitroglycerine. In 1877...
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    1838, another French chemist, Théophile-Jules Pelouze (teacher of Ascanio Sobrero and Alfred Nobel), treated paper and cardboard in the same way. Jean-Baptiste...
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    was an immigrant from Casale Giovanni Lanza (1810–1882), politician Ascanio Sobrero (1812–1888), chemist Eleuterio Pagliano (1826–1903), painter Luigi...
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    was the standard explosive used by the British military. In 1847, Ascanio Sobrero invented nitroglycerine to treat angina pectoris and it turned out...
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    explosive material guncotton and other nitrosulphates. His student Ascanio Sobrero was the discoverer of nitroglycerin (1847), and another student, Alfred...
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    general of the Court of Cassation in Turin and niece of the chemist Ascanio Sobrero. At the time of her birth, Giolitti's father was working as secretary...
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    Herschel Vespasian Johnson, American politician (d. 1880) October 12 – Ascanio Sobrero, Italian chemist (d. 1888) October 20 – Austin Flint I, American cardiologist...
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  • 1846: Henri-Joseph Maus invents the tunnel boring machine. 1847: Ascanio Sobrero invents Nitroglycerin, the first explosive made that was stronger than...
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    abstract of current events and facts. Nitroglycerin, first synthesized by Ascanio Sobrero in 1847. Nuclear reactor, the first working fission nuclear reactor...
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  • Chemistry Michael Smith (1932–2000), 1993 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Ascanio Sobrero (1812–1888), Italian chemist, discoverer of nitroglycerin Frederick...
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  • of the seminiferous tubules of the testis that bear his name (1865) Ascanio Sobrero (1812–1888), chemist, famous for having discovered the synthesis of...
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  • invented by Christian Schoenbein. 1846 Nitroglycerin is invented by Ascanio Sobrero. It is the first practical explosive stronger than gunpowder. 1863...
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  • of the seminiferous tubules of the testis that bear his name (1865) Ascanio Sobrero (1812–1888), chemist, famous for having discovered the synthesis of...
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    Pietro Paleocapa, Giuseppe Peano, Piero Puricelli, Augusto Righi, Ascanio Sobrero; Towns in Tuscany, e.g. Bagni di Lucca, Certaldo, Collodi, Lari, Pescaglia...
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  • Fireworks in 1964, when a chemistry teacher at Kimbolton School; in 1847 Ascanio Sobrero of Italy discovered nitroglycerin - nitroglycerin is the main component...
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  • Nitroglycerin, at first called pyroglycerine, first synthesized by Ascanio Sobrero. Hermann Kolbe obtains acetic acid from completely inorganic sources...
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    Sobrerol is a mucolytic. Sobrerol was discovered by Ascanio Sobrero as an oxidation product of terpenes. Later the oxidation and reduction reactions of...
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  • Biscarra Ceragioli realized in Valentino Park of Torino a monument to Ascanio Sobrero. After World War I his artistic activity went on both as sculptor and...
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    LeConte William Bickford Alfred Nobel James Dewar Christian Friedrich Schönbein Lammot du Pont I Ascanio Sobrero Edward Charles Howard Julius Wilbrand...
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  • Coltelli Giuseppe Ravizza Sanctorius Raimondo di Sangro Antonio Sant'Elia Ascanio Sobrero Nazareno Strampelli Gasparo Tagliacozzi Teseo Tesei Luigi Torchi Evangelista...
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    agricultural chemistry at the Museo industriale. In 1882, following Ascanio Sobrero, he was appointed professor of docimastic chemistry at Scuola d'applicazione...
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    Eleuterio Ubilla 9,000 Melo Cerro Largo FC Estadio Municipal Doctor Mario Sobrero 8,000 Rocha Rocha Fútbol Club Estadio Viera 7,527 Montevideo Montevideo...
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