Avogadro

Avogadro is an Italian surname, derived from avogaro, a Venetian term for a diocese official (equivalent to avvocato, advocatus, "advocate"). In 1389, bishop  Nicolò Beruti, made the office of avogaro hereditary, and a number of noble families with the name Avogaro or Avogadro developed over the following centuries, in Brescia, Vercelli and Treviso.


 * Albert Avogadro (d. 1214), canon lawyer and Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem
 * Amedeo Avogadro (1776–1856), chemist. Named after him are:
 * Avogadro constant
 * Avogadro's law, an ideal gas law
 * Avogadro project, a project to base the standard kilogram mass on the Avogadro constant, rather than an arbitrary block of metal
 * Avogadro (crater), lunar crater
 * Avogadro (software), molecular editor
 * Lucia Albani Avogadro (1534–1568), poet
 * Oscar Avogadro (1951–2010), lyricist