Luigi Galvani, Italian physician, physicist, and philosopher (born 1737)

Luigi Galvani

Italian scientist (1737–1798)

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,…