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On September 9, 1737, Italian physician, physicist and philosopher Luigi Aloisio Galvani was born. He is best known for his discoveries in bioelectricity. In particular, he discovered that the muscles of dead frogs legs twitched when struck by a spark. As a legacy, Galvani’s name survives in the Galvanic cell, Galvani potential, galvanic corrosion, the galvanometer and galvanization. Moreover, his reports also heavily influenced famous author Mary Shelley writing her novel ‘Frankenstein‘.[4]

“When Aloisio Galvani first stimulated the nervous fiber by the accidental contact of two heterogeneous metals, his contemporaries could never have anticipated that the action of the voltaic pile would discover to us, in the alkalies, metals of a silvery luster, so light as to swim on water, and eminently inflammable; or that it would become a powerful instrument of chemical analysis, and at the same time a thermoscope and a magnet.”
— Alexander von Humboldt, in ‘Introduction’ Cosmos: A Sketch of a Physical Desc

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Luigi Galvani

The father of electrophysiology, Galvani was the most illustrious Bolognese scientist of the 18th century. Through experimentation on frogs, he studied and grasped the functions of nerves and muscles as conductors and receptors of brain stimuli. His famous quarrel with Alessandro Volta led to a short period of oblivion, after which he rose to become a pillar of anatomy and medical electricity, as well as a “hero” of the newly-formed Italy.

Luigi Galvani was born in Bologna in 1737 to the goldsmith Domenico Galvani and the wealthy Barbara Foschi.

As they had done for his half-brother Francesco, who became a professor of canon law, Luigi’s parents spared no efforts to ensure him an education in the city’s finest schools.

In 1752, he began to frequent the Oratorio dei Filippini, which left him with a strong religious bent, in the vein of enlightened Catholicism, and a deeply humble and moderate manner. Two years later, Galvani enrolled in medicine (1754), a discipline that was undergoing a period of rebirth at the time, in part thanks to the anatomical and s

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Luigi Galvani

Italian scientist (1737–1798)

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Luigi Galvani (, also;^[1][2][3][4]Italian:[luˈiːdʒiɡalˈvaːni]; 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.^{[5]: 67–71} This was an early study of bioelectricity, following experiments by John Walsh and Hugh Williamson.

Early life

Luigi Galvani was born to Domenico Galvani and Barbara Caterina Foschi, in Bologna, then part of the Papal States. The house in which he was born may still be seen on Via Marconi, 25, in the center of Bologna.^[7] Domenico was a goldsmith. His family had produced several illustrious men.^[7]

Galvani then began taking an interest in the field of "medical electricity". This field emerged in the mid