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Galvani

noun
1.
Italian physiologist noted for his discovery that frogs' muscles contracted in an electric field (which led to the galvanic cell) (1737-1798).  Synonym: Luigi Galvani.






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"Galvani" Quotes from Famous Books



... excite popular interest in the advance of exact science. Investigators are generally quiet, unimpressive men, rather diffident, and wholly wanting in the art of interesting the public in their work. It is safe to say that neither Lavoisier, Galvani, Ohm, Regnault, nor Maxwell could have gotten the smallest appropriation through Congress to help make discoveries which are now the pride of our century. They all dealt in facts and conclusions quite devoid of that grandeur which renders so captivating the ...
— Side-lights on Astronomy and Kindred Fields of Popular Science • Simon Newcomb



Words linked to "Galvani" :   physiologist, Luigi Galvani



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