Stanislao Cannizzaro in Italy. He is best known for his contribution to the then-existing debate over atoms, molecules, and atomic weights. He championed Amedeo Avogadro's notion that equal volumes of gas at the same pressure and temperature held equal numbers of molecules or atoms, and the notion that equal volumes of gas could be used to calculate atomic weights. In so doing, Cannizzaro provided a new understanding of chemistry. Stanislao Cannizzaro Stanislao Cannizzaro FRS (13 July 1826 – 10 May 1910) was an Italian chemist. He is remembered today largely for the Cannizzaro reaction and for his influential role in the atomic-weight
Same-sex unions in the United States law. The federal Defense of Marriage Act in 1996, prompted by fears of an adverse result in Hawaii's lawsuit "Baehr v. Miike", defined a marriage explicitly as a union of one man and one woman for the purposes of all federal laws (See ), which was ultimately ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in "United States v. Windsor" on June 26, 2013. As a result, shortly after "Windsor" was decided, a number of federal areas ranging from veteran benefits to immigration were clarified as applying equally to same-sex couples. The movement to obtain civil marriage rights and benefits for same-sex