Mike wrote on Sun, 11 May 2008 01:16:00 -0700:

Interesting point. There are probably as many references to
Avagadro as Avogadro on the net and in textbooks but what we
can agree on completely is that it isn't avagardo and a man of
such eminence; at the very least, deserves his name to be
spelt with a capital A.

Mike

Well, the Google count is 454 000 for Avogadro and 38 000 for
Avagadro. So, if a good number do get it wrong, most don't
(92%). I wonder if a number of us ancients are confused by a
long-standing admiration for the actress Ava Gardner? :-)

Just to confuse things, an actual value of Avogadro's number was
first calculated by J.J. Loschmidt and some people, especially
in Germany, distinguish between "Avogadro's Hypothesis" and the
"Loschmidt Number".
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