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 926,556 page views. His biography is available in 72 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 71 in 2019). Luigi Galvani is the 31st most popular physicist (down from 26th in 2019), the 147th most popular biography from Italy (down from 108th 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 31 out of 851. Before him are James Clerk Maxwell, Edward Teller, Heinrich Hertz, Hendrik Lorentz, Daniel Bernoulli, and Ibn al-Haytham. After him are Gustav Kirchhoff, Max Born, Andrei Sakharov, Paul Dirac, Richard Feynman, and Henry Cavendish.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1737, Luigi Galvani ranks 1. After him are Johann Friedrich Struensee, Edward Gibbon, Thomas Paine, Michael Haydn, Marie-Louise O'Murphy, Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Louise of France, Antoine-Augustin Parmentier, Alexei Grigoryevich Orlov, Josef Mysliveček, and Tokugawa Ieharu. 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, Heraclius II of Georgia, Rigas Feraios, George Vancouver, Christian Gottlob Neefe, Tarrare, Princess Friederike of Brandenburg-Schwedt, Johann Reinhold Forster, and Edward Waring.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Luigi Galvani ranks 147 out of 5,161. Before him are Luca Pacioli (1445), Adriano Celentano (1938), Guillaume Apollinaire (1880), Pope Pius VIII (1761), Pope Formosus (816), and Plautus (-254). After him are Pope Clement VIII (1536), Marcello Mastroianni (1924), Victor Emmanuel III of Italy (1869), Andrea Mantegna (1431), Joseph-Louis Lagrange (1736), and Pope Pius VI (1717).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Italy

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), Francesco Maria Grimaldi (1618), Carlo Rubbia (1934), Ettore Majorana (1906), Giovanni Battista Venturi (1746), Giorgio Parisi (1948), and Bruno Pontecorvo (1913).

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