Complex sentence: In the 1770s the electric organs of the torpedo and electric eel were already the subject of Royal society papers by Hunter, Walsh and Williamson, and they appear to have influenced the thinking of Luigi Galvani and Alessandro Volta, the founders of electrophysiology and electrochemistry.
Split into simpler sentences: In the 1770s the electric organs of the torpedo and electric eel were the subject of Royal society papers by Hunter, Walsh and Williamson. They appear to have influenced the thinking of Luigi Galvani and Alessandro Volta-the founders of electrophysiology and electrochemistry.