Luigi Galvani (1737-1798)

Galvani was an Italian scientist. He is known for his experiments showing the effects of electricity on living tissue,particularly on muscles.
He discovered that touching the nerves in a dead frog's leg with a pair of scissors during a thunder storm caused the muscles to twitch.
Galvani believed that he had discovered a new type of electricity, animal electricity,but Alessandro Volta showed that this was not the case.
Galvani's name lives on in word 'gavanized' which means stimulated as if by electricity.


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