Luigi Galvani was an Italian physician, physicist, biologist and philosopher who studied animal electricity. In 1780, using a frog, 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.
- Occupation
- anatomist, physicist, physician, university teacher
- Citizenship
- Papal States
- Born
- September 9, 1737
- Died
- December 4, 1798
