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Luigi Galvani
Galvani, Luigi (1737-1798), an Italian physician and anatomist. About 1780 he discovered current electricity.
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Italian biologists have contributed some of biology's greatest findings. With the increasing importance of genetics, conservation and microbiology, Italian biologists may yet discover some of nature's most amazing secrets.
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Camillo GolgiGolgi, Camillo (1844-1926), an Italian physician and anatomist. Golgi found that he could observe nerve tissue in detail by using silver nitrate as a stain. See more »
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Giovanni Battista Morgagni
Morgagni, Giovanni Battista (1682-1771), an Italian physician and the founder of pathological anatomy, the study of diseased tissue. See more »
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Lazzaro Spallanzani
Spallanzani, Lazzaro (1729-1799), an Italian biologist, one of the foremost experimenters of his day. See more »
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Luigi Galvani
Galvani, Luigi (1737-1798), an Italian physician and anatomist. About 1780 he discovered current electricity. See more »
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Marcello Malpighi
Malpighi, Marcello (1628-1694), an Italian physician. In 1661 he discovered capillaries, the tiny blood vessels that connect veins and arteries. See more »
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