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Luigi Galvani
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 struck by an electrical spark. This was an early study of bioelectricity, following experiments by John Walsh and Hugh Williamson.
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science · Italian scientist (1737–1798) · anatomist · physicist · physician · university teacher · inventor · naturalist · also Luigi Galvani, Luigi Aloisio Galvani, Galvani
Born 9 September 1737 · Died 4 December 1798 · Q1589
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1996· 1 entry
By Eric Walter Elst at the La Silla Observatory, was also named in his honour
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1961· 1 entry
“The Great Physicists from Galileo to Einstein”
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1934· 1 entry
“Atomic Physics and the Description of Nature”
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1798· 1 entry
Died 1798-12-04.
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1759· 1 entry
Studied at University of Bologna (1759).
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1737· 1 entry
Born 1737-09-09.
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