Oronzio De Nora (March 19, 1899 – June 11, 1995) was an Italian engineer and entrepreneur, founder of Industrie De Nora and inventor of the Amuchina disinfectant.
[1] Born to Michele De Nora, a civil engineer specialized in railways and responsible for the aqueduct in Altamura, and Elvira Colonna, he was the older brother of Vittorio, who also became an engineer.
His thesis focused on the electrolysis of alkali chlorides, the sector in which he made a name for himself worldwide.
He opened a laboratory near Milano Centrale railway station,[2] and in 1923, he founded Industrie De Nora,[3] becoming a pioneer in the construction of plants for the production of chlorine and caustic soda.
[4] In 1923, he patented Amuchina in Germany, a powerful antibacterial agent obtained from water diluted sodium hypochlorite.