Luigi Galvani was an Italian Physicist who lived from 1737-1798 in the Italian city of Bologna. He loved animals and had thought of being a veterinarian many times as a child. He attended Bologna’s medicine school and became a medical doctor just as his father did. In 1764 he got married to the daughter of a professor at the University of Bologna and in 1772, he became the president of the university.

In 1776, he began to test the action of electricity on the muscles of dissected frogs. In 1783, while working with static electricity on a table at which he had dissected a frog, his assistant accidentally touched the frog with a charged scalpel and its legs kicked outward as a frog’s legs would while it’s living. This made Galvani the first to appreciate the relationship between life and electricity. He used the term animal electricity to describe whatever it was that activated the muscles of his specimens.

Galvani’s discovery had lead to the invention of an......

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Title: Galvani's Frog Experiments
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