Luigi Galvani
Luigi Galvani (,
also ; ; ; 9 September 1737 – 4 December 1798) was an Italian physician, physicist, biologist and philosopher, who studied
animal electricity. In 1780, 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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