What is Luigi Galvani?
[[File:Galvani.jpg|thumb|Luigi Galvani - Italian physician famous for making frogs' legs twitch.]] '''Luigi Galvani''' (September 9, 1737 – December 4, 1798) was an [[Italy|Italian]] [[physician]] who lived and died in [[Bologna]] (Italy). In 1771, he found out that the [[muscle]]s of dead [[frog]]s twitched when hit by a spark.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/biography/Galvani.html |title=Luigi Galvani (1737-1798) |accessdate=2008-07-09 |format= |work=– Eric Weisstein’s World of Scientific Biolgraph. }}</ref> He was a [[pioneer]] in modern [[obstetrics]], and discovered that [[muscle]] and [[neuron|nerve cells]] produce [[electricity]]. He is well known as the inventor of [[chemical cell]]s. Galvani invented batteries which is probably the most important thing which he has made. He also discovered that nerves and muscles produce electricity, and he was a very intelligent man in many different other ways. This also links to the story of [[Frankenstein]] this story is based on a scientist giving life to a body made from different people's limbs by using the same procedure as Luigi Galvani, by sending an electrical current from lightening. == References == {{Commons|Luigi Galvani}} {{reflist}} == Related pages == *[[Galvanic isolation]] *[[Galvanizing]] *[[Galvanometer]] {{bio-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Galvani, Luigi}} [[Category:Italian physicians]] [[Category:Italian scientists]] [[Category:1737 births]] [[Category:1798 deaths]]