Alessandro Volta
Italian chemist and physicist (1745–1827)
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He built the first battery and proved electricity could be made with metal and chemicals alone — no frog legs, no living tissue required. The voltaic pile, unveiled in 1800, cracked open electrochemistry and still lends his name to the volt.
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Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta was born in Como on 18 February 1745. In 1799 he invented the voltaic pile and reported his results in a two-part letter to the Royal Society in London the following year, debunking the prevailing belief that only living beings could generate electricity. The invention drew Napoleon's admiration; Volta was summoned to Paris to demonstrate the device at the Institute of France, and the emperor conferred numerous honours on him throughout his life. He held the chair of experimental physics at the University of Pavia for nearly four decades, idolized by…
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