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Galvani
[ gahl-vah-nee ]
noun
- Lu·i·gi [loo-, ee, -jee], 1737–98, Italian physiologist whose experiments led to the discovery that electricity can result from chemical action.
Galvani
/ ɡalˈvaːni /
noun
- GalvaniLuigi17371798MItalianSCIENCE: physiologist Luigi (luˈiːdʒi). 1737–98, Italian physiologist: observed that muscles contracted on contact with dissimilar metals. This led to the galvanic cell and the electrical theory of muscle control by nerves
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Volta actually made this battery, then known as the Voltaic Pile, but he made it because of Galvani's discovery.
The wife of Galvani, who was present, was surprised to observe that every time he did so the limbs of the frogs moved as if alive.
Galvani, a professor of anatomy in the university of Bologna, was one day making experiments on electricity.
As in the case of Galvani's frog, the laughable occurrences that you refuse to believe reveal the existence of new unknown forces.
Galvani did not know that he had discovered a new source of electricity.
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