Luigi Galvani
Italian physician, physicist, and philosopher · Italy · Doctors · Lived 1737 to 1798 · aged 61
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Something wrong?He made dead frogs dance with sparks. The twitching legs weren't witchcraft - they were the first hard proof that bodies run on electricity.
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Antonio Muzzi, Luigi Galvani compie esperimenti con la macchina elettrostatica alla presenza dei familiari, 1862
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About this person
Luigi Galvani was an Italian physician, physicist, biologist, and philosopher who spent his career chasing animal electricity. In 1780 he ran a voltage through a dead frog and watched its legs kick, a spasm that cracked open bioelectricity as a field. The work followed earlier experiments by John Walsh and Hugh Williamson, but Galvani's frog became the canonical image. He was born on 9 September 1737 and died on 4 December 1798, his name now worn by every galvanized surface and galvanometer that carries current.
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