Galvani, Luigi. Born in Bologna, September 9, 1737. A celebrated Italian physiologist from whom "Galvanism" derived its name. Galvani was educated for the profession of medicine and, in 1762, was appointed lecturer on anatomy at the University of Bologna, in which city he practiced. It was while holding this lectureship that Galvani made those discoveries, partly by means of experiments on the muscles of frogs, which he made known to the world in 1791, in his treatise entitled, "De Viribus Electricitatis in Motu Musculari Commentarius." Galvani died in 1798.

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