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Galvani
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Gal·va·ni (gl-vän, gäl-), Luigi 1737-1798.
Italian physiologist and physician who asserted that animal tissues generate electricity. Although proved wrong, his work stimulated research on electricity.
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Galvanic skin response is named after the Italian physician and physicist Luigi Galvani, who in the late eighteenth century first began generating muscle movements in frogs and other animals via electric current ("animal electricity," he called it, and humans were not far behind in the experiments of his acolytes, such as his nephew Giovanni Aldini).
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Its history dates back to the 1700s, when Italian Luigi Galvani carried out tests on dead frogs.
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