Luigi Galvani
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Luigi Galvani was an Italian physician, physicist, biologist and philosopher who studied animal electricity. In 1780, using a frog, he discovered that the muscles of dead frogs' legs twitched when str
Portrait of Galvani at the Palazzo Poggi
Experiment De viribus electricitatis in motu musculari.
Electrodes touch a frog, and the legs twitch into the upward position. (see also: Frog galvanoscope)
Luigi Galvani's monument in Piazza Luigi Galvani (Luigi Galvani Square), in Bologna.
Alessandro Volta
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Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta was an Italian chemist and physicist who was a pioneer of electricity and power, and is credited as the inventor of the electric battery and the discoverer
Luigi Galvani
…on the effect of electricity on animal preparations, had an enormous impact on the scientific community and sparked heated controversy in Europe. Alessandro Volta, a professor of experimental physics at the University of Pavia, was among the first scientists who repeated and checked Galvani’s experiments. At…
Alessandro Volta
Volta battery at the Tempio Voltiano museum, Como
Volta explains the principle of the electric column to Napoleon in 1801.
Leopoldo Pollack, Aula Volta, 1787, Old Campus of the University of Pavia