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Luigi Galvani was born to Domenico Galvani and Barbara Caterina Foschi, in Bologna, then part of the Papal States. [6] The house in which he was born may still be seen on Via Marconi, 25, in the center of Bologna. [ 7 ]
Galvanism: electrodes touch a frog, and the legs twitch into the upward position [1]. Galvanism is a term invented by the late 18th-century physicist and chemist Alessandro Volta to refer to the generation of electric current by chemical action. [2]
Galvani is an Italian surname derived from Galvano, from Latin Galbinus and Galba. Pelagio Galvani (c. 1165–1230), Portuguese cardinal Luigi Galvani (1737–1798), Italian biologist
Galvanic cell with no cation flow. A galvanic cell or voltaic cell, named after the scientists Luigi Galvani and Alessandro Volta, respectively, is an electrochemical cell in which an electric current is generated from spontaneous oxidation–reduction reactions.
Galvani, and his nephew Giovanni Aldini, used the frog galvanoscope in their electrical experiments. Carlo Matteucci improved the instrument and brought it to wider attention. [ 11 ] Galvani used the frog galvanoscope to investigate and promote the theory of animal electricity , that is, that there was a vital life force in living things that ...
Pelagio Galvani [1] (c. 1165 – 30 January 1230, [2] Portuguese: Paio Galvão Latin: Pelagius) was a Leonese [3] cardinal, and canon lawyer. [4] He became a papal legate and leader of the Fifth Crusade .
Alison P. Galvani (born ca. 1977) is an American epidemiologist. She is the Burnett and Stender Families Professor of Epidemiology at the Yale School of Public Health and the Director of the Center for Infectious Disease Modeling and Analysis.
William H. Galvani (June 27, 1861 – October 23, 1947) was a Russian-American civil engineer, vegetarianism activist and writer. Biography.