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Alessandro Volta
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 of methane. He invented the voltaic pile in 1799, and reported the results of his experiments in a two-part letter to the president of the Royal Society in London, which was published in 1800. With th…
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science · Italian chemist and physicist (1745–1827) · physicist · inventor · academic · chemist · university teacher · also Alessandro Volta, Alessandrino Volta, Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta, Volta
Born 18 February 1745 · Died 5 March 1827 · Q680
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1927· 1 entry
An international physics conference, the Como Conference was held at Lake Como for the 100th anniversary of his death
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1827· 2 entries
Died 1827-03-05.
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From a series of illnesses which began in 1823
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1819· 1 entry
To his estate in Camnago, a frazione of Como, Italy, now named "Camnago Volta" in his honour
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1809· 2 entries
Volta became an associated member of the Royal Institute of the Netherlands
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Career landmark: senator (1809–1814).
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1805· 1 entry
Awarded Knight of the Legion of Honour (1805).
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1800· 1 entry
As the result of a professional disagreement over the galvanic response advocated by Galvani, Volta invented the voltaic pile, an early electric battery, which produced a steady electric current
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1794· 1 entry
Won Copley Medal (1794).
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1745· 1 entry
Born 1745-02-18.
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