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Luigi Galvani (1737-1798) was an Italian physicist and physician who discovered bioelectricity, the electrical phenomena in living organisms. In the 1780s, he observed that dissected frog legs would twitch when touched with different metals, mistakenly attributing this to 'animal electricity' unique to biological tissue. This finding, though incorrectly interpreted, established the foundation for electrophysiology and inspired Alessandro Volta to develop the first battery. Galvani served as a professor of anatomy at the University of Bologna, and his name lives on in terms like 'galvanism' and 'galvanization' that describe electrical and electrochemical processes.
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Luigi Galvani ranks #96 of 605 in the Inventor ranking, behind Gertrude B. Elion, ahead of Leo Fender.
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