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(1737–98)
Italian physiologist. In the late 1770s he observed that the muscles of a dead frog twitched when touched by two different metals. He concluded that the muscle was producing electricity, but this was later disproved. Galvani also invented galvanized iron and the galvanometer.
From: Galvani, Luigi in A Dictionary of Biology »
Subjects: Science and Mathematics.
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