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Luigi Galvani, Italian physician and physicist (died 1798)

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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,…
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September 9

Day of the year

September 9 is the 252nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 113 days remain until the end of the year.
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