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Luigi Galvani was an Italian scientist and teacher in the 1700's. Galvani's most famous discovery was effects of electricity on animal nerves and muscles. Luigi was born in Bologna in 1737, and was a medical student in the University of Bologna, the school that he would later teach at. During his career as a professor of Anatomy at the university, he accidentally discovered that a frog leg would twitch when it was touched with an electrified scalpel.

Galvani was also able to make a crude battery in 1786. The battery contained two different metals, and natural juices from a frog. These experiments and discoveries helped to blur the line between biology, chemistry, and electricity, possibly inspiring other scientists do research in the field. The Galvani' deductions were later corrected by Alessandro Volta, but his discoveries were still startling at the time.
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I named my pet goldfish after Galvani! He's a genious too.
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I would like to help you with the translations. I am not an expert or something like that but if you like I can correct or modify what you have to give sense on your texts like this:

Albert Einstein nació en Ulm, Alemania la 14 de marzo de 1879. Cinco años más tarde, en 1884, él y su familia se trasladaron a Munich debido al nuevo trabajo de su padre. En 1901 lo naturalizaban como ciudadano suizo. Ocho años más tarde cuando Einstein era suizo a el le agradó el trabajo de su profesor de física teórica en la universidad de Zurich. A partir la 1911 a 1912 él tenía el mismo trabajo que un profesor en Praga. En 1913 lo eligieron para formar parte de la academia de ciencia en Berlín. Einstein recibió el reconocimiento de su pais natal Alemania obteniendo así la nacionalidad alemana en 1914. Él trabajó por 19 años como profesor en Berlín. A partir la 1920 a 1946 Él podía - oficialmente - ser profesor especial en Leiden, Holanda, también, pero debido a su emigración, él no trabajó para la universidad durante mucho tiempo antes de 1946. Debido al movimiento NAZI, Einstein renunció la ciudadanía alemana en 1933. Él se trasladó a los Estados Unidos y trabajó como profesor en Princeton, New Jersey hasta 1945. Él se hizo oficialmente americano en 1941. Albert Einstein murió el 18 de abril de 1955.

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University of Pennsylvania "Luigi Galvani"
http://www.english.upenn.edu/!jlynch/frankdemo/people/galvani.html

"Galvani, Luigi"
Encarta Encyclopedia, 1997

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