Luigi Galvani
Italian physician, physicist, and philosopher
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Updated 2026-05-29
Galvani got famous zapping dead frog legs in 1780 and accidentally founding the study of bioelectricity. His twitching amphibians became the blueprint for understanding how electricity moves through living tissue.
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Luigi Galvani 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. This was an early study of bioelectricity, following experiments by John Walsh and Hugh Williamson.
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