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luigi galvani italian physician famous for pioneering bioelectricity 4 december 1798 bologna , papal states bologna , papal states university of bologna 9 september 1737 bioelectricity -lrb- animal electricity -rrb- luigi galvani , oil-painting . jpg luigi galvani
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luigi galvani

luigi aloisio galvani -lrb- ; september 9 , 1737 -- december 4 , 1798 -rrb- was an italian physician , physicist , biologist and philosopher , who discovered the animal electricity and he is recognized as the pioneer of the bioelectromagnetics .
in 1780 , he discovered that the muscles of dead frogs legs twitched when struck by an electrical spark .
this was one of the first forays into the study of bioelectricity , a field that still studies the electrical patterns and signals of the nervous system .
