Alessandro, Conte Volta (1745-1827)
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Born at Como , Italy, Volta was a professor at Pavia for more than 20 years. A well travelled man, he was known to many famous men of his times. He decisively proved that animal electricity observed by luigi Galvani in frog muscles was a general phenomenon taking palace between two dissimilar metals separated by acidic or salt solutions. On the basos of this observation, he invented first electro-chemical cell, called voltaic cell. The unit of potential difference is named volt in his honour.
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