Augusto Piccini

Augusto Piccini (born May 8, 1854 in San Miniato, † April 15, 1905 in Florence) was an Italian chemist.

He was born in 1854 as the son of the president of the local court Francesco Piccini and his wife Elisabetta Boninsegni.

Piccini had two brothers, Giulio (1849-1915), journalist and author of crime stories, and Giovanni (1851-1903), lawyer and since 1900 Member of the Camera dei deputati of the Kingdom of Italy.

Stanislao Cannizzaro appointed him in 1880 at the age of 26 as an assistant to his chair of general chemistry in Rome, where he was a colleague of Giacomo Luigi Ciamician.

[1] Piccini was an early proponent of Mendeleev's ideas, which contributed to the spreading of the periodic table in Italy.