Luigi Galvani 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 an electrical spark. This was an early study of... Wikipedia
Born: September 9, 1737, Bologna, Italy
Died: December 4, 1798 (age 61 years), Bologna, Italy
Known for: Bioelectricity (animal electricity)
Parents: Domenico Foschi and Barbara Foschi
Nationality: Italian
Spouse: Lucia Galeazzi Galvani (m. 1762–1788)
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Physician, physiologist, physicist, philosopher, academician, professor of medicine, surgery, anatomy and obstetrics (Bologna 1737 – 1798).
Luigi Galvani was an Italian physician, physicist, and biologist who pioneered the field of bioelectrics and discovered what he called animal electricity.