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Born September 9, 1737 • Bologna • Italy
Died December 4, 1798 (aged 61) • Bologna • Cisalpine Republic
Notable Works “Commentary on the Effect of Electricity on Muscular Motion” • “Dell’uso e dell’attività dell’arco conduttore nella contrazione dei muscoli”
Subjects Of Study bioelectricity • muscle contraction • nerve impulse

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Helmholtz.
Hermann von Helmholtz
German scientist and philosopher
Lord Adrian. 1956.
Edgar Douglas Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian
British electrophysiologist
De Motu Animalium by Giovanni Alfonso Borelli
Giovanni Alfonso Borelli
Italian physiologist and physicist
Arsène d’Arsonval
French physician and physicist
Al-Bīrūnī, Afghan commemorative stamp, 1973.
al-Bīrūnī
Persian scholar and scientist
Hans Bethe.
Hans Bethe
American physicist
Helmont, Jan Baptista van
Jan Baptista van Helmont
Belgian scientist
Thomas Young, engraving
Thomas Young
British physician and physicist
Rosalyn S. Yalow at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, Dec. 14, 1977.
Rosalyn S. Yalow
American medical physicist
Sir John Eccles.
Sir John Carew Eccles
Australian physiologist
Allan MacLeod Cormack
Allan MacLeod Cormack
American physicist
Neher, Erwin
Erwin Neher
German physicist
Axelrod, Julius
Julius Axelrod
American biochemist
Sir Alan Hodgkin
Sir Alan Hodgkin
British biophysicist
David Hunter Hubel
American biologist
Sir Peter Mansfield
British physicist
Du Bois-Reymond, engraving, c. 1900.
Emil Heinrich Du Bois-Reymond
German physiologist
Georg von Békésy
American physicist and physiologist
Andrew Fielding Huxley
Sir Andrew Fielding Huxley
British physiologist
Otto Loewi
German-American pharmacologist

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