Luigi Galvani - Wikipedia Galvani was described by contemporaries as an "honest, mild, modest man, polite, charitable to the unfortunate and always a noble and generous friend " [6] He was noted for his religious devotion and saw his medical work as a spiritual mission
Galvani Discovers ‘Animal Electricity’ - History Today Galvani’s great breakthrough had come on 20 September 1786, when he had discovered – quite by accident – that the spinal cords of a frog carried an electric charge Galvani believed he had found proof of what he called ‘animal electricity’, an innate force in the body’s nerves
Luigi Galvani - Magnet Academy - National MagLab Galvani’s work pioneered the field of electrophysiology, the branch of science concerned with electrical phenomena in the body, and Volta’s experiments resulted in his development of the voltaic pile, an early form of the battery