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Bologna - Piazza Galvani

Aloysius Galvanus; 9 September 1737 - 4 December 1798) he was an Italian physician, physicist, biologist and philosopher, who discovered animal electricity He is recognized as the pioneer of bioelectromagnetics. In 1780, he discovered that the muscles of the legs of dead frogs contracted when they were hit by an electric spark. This was one of the first forays into the study of bioelectricity, a field that still studies electrical models and signals from tissues such as nerves and muscles.

 

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