Alessandro Volta

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Alessandro Volta was an Italian physicist and pioneer of electricity best known for inventing the electric battery and giving his name to the unit of electric potential, the volt.

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instanceOf academic
human
inventor
physicist
awardReceived Copley Medal
Légion d'honneur
surface form: Legion of Honour
burialPlace Camnago Volta
causeOfDeath natural causes
countryOfCitizenship Duchy of Milan NERFINISHED
Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia NERFINISHED
dateOfBirth 1745-02-18
dateOfDeath 1827-03-05
discovered electrical contact potential
methane
educatedAt Collegio dei Gesuiti di Como
employer University of Pavia
eponymOf volt
voltaic pile
ethnicGroup Italian
familyName Volta
fieldOfWork electricity
physics
fullName Alessandro Volta self-linksurface differs
surface form: Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta
givenName Alessandro
hasHonorificTitle Count
hasMonument Tempio Voltiano in Como
honouredIn SI unit of electric potential (volt)
influenced André-Marie Ampère
Georg Ohm
Michael Faraday
influencedBy Luigi Galvani
knownFor development of the voltaic pile
invention of the electric battery
work on electric potential
languageOfWorkOrName Italian
memberOf Académie des Sciences
surface form: French Academy of Sciences

Royal Society
nativeLanguage Italian
notableWork discovery of methane
Voltaic pile
surface form: voltaic pile
occupation inventor
physicist
placeOfBirth Como
Duchy of Milan NERFINISHED
placeOfDeath Como
Lombardy–Venetia
positionHeld professor of experimental physics at the University of Pavia
religion Roman Catholicism
sexOrGender male
workLocation Pavia

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