Luigi Galvani Italian Physician Physicist And Philosopher Born 1737 - December 4 in History | This Day Story

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December 4, 1798

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

Luigi Galvani

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.

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