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  1. Luigi Galvani was an Italian physician and physicist who investigated the nature and effects of what he conceived to be electricity in animal tissue. His discoveries led to the invention of the voltaic pile, a kind of battery that makes possible a constant source of current electricity.

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  2. Luigi Galvani (/ ɡ æ l ˈ v ɑː n i /, also US: / ɡ ɑː l-/; Italian: [luˈiːdʒi ɡalˈvaːni]; Latin: Aloysius Galvanus; 9 September 1737 – 4 December 1798) was an Italian physician, physicist, biologist and philosopher, who studied animal electricity. In 1780, he discovered that the muscles of dead frogs' legs twitched when struck by ...

  3. Jun 10, 2019 · Luigi Galvani (September 9, 1737–December 4, 1798) was an Italian physician who demonstrated what we now understand to be the electrical basis of nerve impulses. In 1780, he accidentally made frog muscles twitch by jolting them with a spark from an electrostatic machine.

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  4. Luigi Galvani - Magnet Academy. Luigi Galvani was a pioneer in the field of electrophysiology, the branch of science concerned with electrical phenomena in the body. Luigi Galvani was born on September 9, 1737 in Bologna, Italy. In his youth, Galvani intended to pursue a theology.

  5. Luigi Galvani was an Italian physician and physicist. One of the early pioneers of bioelectricity, he is known for his extraordinary work on the nature and effects of electricity in an animal tissue, which later led to the invention of the voltaic pile.

  6. For the full article, see Luigi Galvani. Luigi Galvani , (born Sept. 9, 1737, Bologna, Papal States—died Dec. 4, 1798, Bologna, Cisalpine Republic), Italian physician and physicist. His early research focused on comparative anatomy, including the structure of kidney tubules and the middle ear.

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  8. Luigi Galvani. Physician, physiologist, physicist, philosopher, academician, professor of medicine, surgery, anatomy and obstetrics (Bologna 1737 – 1798). The father of electrophysiology, Galvani was the most illustrious Bolognese scientist of the 18th century.

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