Luigi Galvani
Luigi Galvani was an eighteenth-century Italian physician and physicist who discovered that electrical stimulation causes muscle contraction.
His experiments with frog legs—making them twitch by touching nerves with metal—established the electrical basis of nerve impulses.
His name survives in galvanize, galvanic, and galvanometer.
- electricityEnergy from charged particles
- frogTailless leaping amphibian
- legsLocomotion appendages below torso
- twitchInvoluntary muscular jerk
- nerveSignal-carrying body fiber
nerve impulse · muscle · bioelectricity · Bologna · anatomy · experiment · current · dissection · spark · reanimation · scalpel · laboratory · impulse · tissue · Frankenstein · mad scientist · stimulus · contraction
- Electricity HistoryMichael Faraday, Faraday, Benjamin Franklin, Franklin, Thomas Edison
- Bologna Alumni
- Electrical PioneersThomas Edison, Edison, Nikola Tesla, Tesla, Benjamin Franklin
- Natural Philosophersnatural philosopher, Isaac Newton, Francis Bacon, Joseph Priestley, Michael Faraday
- Bolognese Figures
- 18th Century InventorsBenjamin Franklin, James Watt, Eli Whitney, Joseph Priestley, Jethro Tull
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