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Luigi Galvani

1737 - 1798

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Luigi Galvani ( gal-VAH-nee, US also gahl-, 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, using a frog, he discovered that the muscles of dead frogs' legs twitched when struck by an electrical spark.: 67–71  This was an early study of bioelectricity, following experiments by John Walsh and Hugh Williamson. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Luigi Galvani is the 44th most popular physicist (down from 31st in 2019), the 181st most popular biography from Italy (down from 147th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Italian Physicist.

Luigi Galvani was a professor of anatomy at the University of Bologna. He is most famous for his work with electricity and animal tissue. He discovered that electricity could make muscles contract in frogs and other animals.

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Among physicists, Luigi Galvani ranks 44 out of 851. Before him are Daniel Bernoulli, Lise Meitner, Charles-Augustin de Coulomb, Charles H. Townes, Pieter Zeeman, and William Gilbert. After him are Nevill Francis Mott, David J. Thouless, Charles Édouard Guillaume, Philip Warren Anderson, Gustav Kirchhoff, and Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit.

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Among people born in 1737, Luigi Galvani ranks 1. After him are Edward Gibbon, Thomas Paine, Johann Friedrich Struensee, Michael Haydn, Josef Mysliveček, Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Antoine-Augustin Parmentier, Archduchess Maria Elisabeth of Austria, Marie-Louise O'Murphy, Alexei Grigoryevich Orlov, and Louise of France. Among people deceased in 1798, Luigi Galvani ranks 2. Before him is Giacomo Casanova. After him are Stanisław August Poniatowski, Maria Christina, Duchess of Teschen, James Wilson, Tarrare, George Read, Rigas Feraios, George Vancouver, Princess Friederike of Brandenburg-Schwedt, Heraclius II of Georgia, and Christian Gottlob Neefe.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Luigi Galvani ranks 181 out of 5,161. Before him are Bud Spencer (1929), Cesare Borgia (1475), Pope Celestine III (1106), Pope Boniface IX (1350), Pope Gregory VIII (1100), and Pope Innocent VII (1339). After him are Marcus Aemilius Lepidus (-89), Antonio Salieri (1750), Pope Urban III (1200), Gaetano Donizetti (1797), Marcello Mastroianni (1924), and Andrea del Verrocchio (1435).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Italy

Among physicists born in Italy, Luigi Galvani ranks 4. Before him are Alessandro Volta (1745), Evangelista Torricelli (1608), and Enrico Fermi (1901). After him are Emilio Segrè (1905), Laura Bassi (1711), Francesco Maria Grimaldi (1618), Ettore Majorana (1906), Carlo Rubbia (1934), Giovanni Battista Venturi (1746), Giovanni Battista Amici (1786), and Bruno Pontecorvo (1913).

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