Galvani

Gal·va·ni

G0025000 (găl-vä′nē, gäl-), Luigi 1737-1798. Italian physiologist who demonstrated that electricity stimulated frogs' muscles to contract and theorized that animal tissues are filled with an electric fluid.

Galvani

(Italian ɡalˈvaːni) n (Biography) Luigi (luˈiːdʒi). 1737–98, Italian physiologist: observed that muscles contracted on contact with dissimilar metals. This led to the galvanic cell and the electrical theory of muscle control by nerves

Gal•va•ni

(gɑlˈvɑ ni)

n. Lu•i•gi (luˈi dʒi) 1737–98, Italian physiologist and physicist.

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