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PHYSICIST

Luigi Galvani

1737 - 1798

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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

Among physicists, Luigi Galvani ranks 26 out of 717Before 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.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1737, Luigi Galvani ranks 1After 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 2Before 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.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Luigi Galvani ranks 109 out of 4,668Before 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).

Among PHYSICISTS In Italy

Among physicists born in Italy, Luigi Galvani ranks 4Before 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).