1737 - 1798
Luigi Galvani (, also US: ; Italian: [luˈiːdʒi ɡalˈvaːni]; Latin: Aloysius Galvanus; 9 September 1737 – 4 December 1798) was an Italian physician, physicist, biologist and philosopher, who studied animal electricity. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Luigi Galvani has received more than 871,228 page views. His biography is available in 71 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 66 in 2019). Luigi Galvani is the 26th most popular physicist (up from 28th in 2019), the 109th most popular biography from Italy (up from 145th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Italian Physicist.
Luigi Galvani was a professor of anatomy at the University of Bologna. He is most famous for his work with electricity and animal tissue. He discovered that electricity could make muscles contract in frogs and other animals.
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Among physicists, Luigi Galvani ranks 26 out of 717. Before him are Henri Becquerel, Erwin Schrödinger, Christiaan Huygens, Enrico Fermi, Heinrich Hertz, and Charles-Augustin de Coulomb. After him are Daniel Bernoulli, Richard Feynman, Hendrik Lorentz, Ibn al-Haytham, Henry Cavendish, and Gustav Kirchhoff.
1852 - 1908
HPI: 78.87
Rank: 20
1887 - 1961
HPI: 78.79
Rank: 21
1629 - 1695
HPI: 77.71
Rank: 22
1901 - 1954
HPI: 77.48
Rank: 23
1857 - 1894
HPI: 77.14
Rank: 24
1736 - 1806
HPI: 77.05
Rank: 25
1737 - 1798
HPI: 76.66
Rank: 26
1700 - 1782
HPI: 75.57
Rank: 27
1918 - 1988
HPI: 75.46
Rank: 28
1853 - 1928
HPI: 74.96
Rank: 29
965 - 1039
HPI: 74.92
Rank: 30
1731 - 1810
HPI: 74.40
Rank: 31
1824 - 1887
HPI: 74.38
Rank: 32
Among people born in 1737, Luigi Galvani ranks 1. After him are Johann Friedrich Struensee, Edward Gibbon, Thomas Paine, Michael Haydn, Alexei Grigoryevich Orlov, Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Antoine-Augustin Parmentier, Marie-Louise O'Murphy, Josef Mysliveček, Archduchess Maria Elisabeth of Austria, and Louise of France. Among people deceased in 1798, Luigi Galvani ranks 2. Before him is Giacomo Casanova. After him are Stanisław August Poniatowski, Maria Christina, Duchess of Teschen, Rigas Feraios, Christian Gottlob Neefe, George Vancouver, Princess Friederike of Brandenburg-Schwedt, Heraclius II of Georgia, Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder, Infanta María Amalia of Spain, and Edward Waring.
1737 - 1798
HPI: 76.66
Rank: 1
1737 - 1772
HPI: 67.95
Rank: 2
1737 - 1794
HPI: 67.84
Rank: 3
1737 - 1809
HPI: 67.18
Rank: 4
1737 - 1806
HPI: 63.69
Rank: 5
1737 - 1808
HPI: 62.17
Rank: 6
1737 - 1814
HPI: 61.36
Rank: 7
1737 - 1813
HPI: 61.00
Rank: 8
1737 - 1814
HPI: 60.74
Rank: 9
1737 - 1781
HPI: 60.20
Rank: 10
1737 - 1740
HPI: 59.52
Rank: 11
1737 - 1787
HPI: 58.69
Rank: 12
1725 - 1798
HPI: 78.68
Rank: 1
1737 - 1798
HPI: 76.66
Rank: 2
1732 - 1798
HPI: 70.62
Rank: 3
1742 - 1798
HPI: 68.29
Rank: 4
1757 - 1798
HPI: 60.04
Rank: 5
1748 - 1798
HPI: 59.82
Rank: 6
1757 - 1798
HPI: 58.80
Rank: 7
1736 - 1798
HPI: 58.19
Rank: 8
1720 - 1798
HPI: 58.04
Rank: 9
1773 - 1798
HPI: 56.02
Rank: 10
1779 - 1798
HPI: 54.49
Rank: 11
1736 - 1798
HPI: 54.43
Rank: 12
Among people born in Italy, Luigi Galvani ranks 109 out of 4,668. Before him are Amedeo Avogadro (1776), Antoninus Pius (86), Antonio Gramsci (1891), Pope Innocent III (1160), Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1526), and Joseph-Louis Lagrange (1736). After him are Lucrezia Borgia (1480), Silvio Berlusconi (1936), Juan Carlos I of Spain (1938), Cato the Elder (-243), Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor (1768), and Agatha of Sicily (235).
1776 - 1856
HPI: 76.93
Rank: 103
86 - 161
HPI: 76.91
Rank: 104
1891 - 1937
HPI: 76.84
Rank: 105
1160 - 1216
HPI: 76.82
Rank: 106
1526 - 1593
HPI: 76.77
Rank: 107
1736 - 1813
HPI: 76.72
Rank: 108
1737 - 1798
HPI: 76.66
Rank: 109
1480 - 1519
HPI: 76.62
Rank: 110
1936 - 2023
HPI: 76.49
Rank: 111
1938 - Present
HPI: 76.46
Rank: 112
243 BC - 149 BC
HPI: 76.32
Rank: 113
1768 - 1835
HPI: 76.22
Rank: 114
235 - 261
HPI: 76.20
Rank: 115
Among physicists born in Italy, Luigi Galvani ranks 4. Before him are Alessandro Volta (1745), Evangelista Torricelli (1608), and Enrico Fermi (1901). After him are Laura Bassi (1711), Emilio Segrè (1905), Giorgio Parisi (1948), Francesco Maria Grimaldi (1618), Ettore Majorana (1906), Giovanni Battista Venturi (1746), Carlo Rubbia (1934), and Bruno Pontecorvo (1913).
1745 - 1827
HPI: 83.08
Rank: 1
1608 - 1647
HPI: 79.49
Rank: 2
1901 - 1954
HPI: 77.48
Rank: 3
1737 - 1798
HPI: 76.66
Rank: 4
1711 - 1778
HPI: 64.47
Rank: 5
1905 - 1989
HPI: 63.59
Rank: 6
1948 - Present
HPI: 63.26
Rank: 7
1618 - 1663
HPI: 62.31
Rank: 8
1906 - 1959
HPI: 61.40
Rank: 9
1746 - 1822
HPI: 59.64
Rank: 10
1934 - Present
HPI: 59.41
Rank: 11
1913 - 1993
HPI: 57.57
Rank: 12