Volta, Alessandro Giuseppe

Volta, Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio (1745-1827) Italian physicist. In 1774 he began teaching in Como and in that year invented the electrophorus. He moved to Pavia University in 1778. in 1800 he made the voltaic cell, thus providing the first practical source of electric current (see also Gal-VANi, Luigi). The SI unit of voltage is named after him. 

Count Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta (1745-1827). 

The volt is the SI unit of electric potential. One volt is the difference of potential between two points of an electical conductor when a current of 1 ampere flowing between those points dissipates a power of 1 watt. It is named after the Italian physicist Count Alessandro Giuseppe Anastasio Volta (1745-1827). 

Count Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta (1745-1827). ItaUan physicist. Volta showed that animal tissue was not necessary for the conduction of electricity, as had been hypothesized by Galvani. He invented the first electric (or voltaic) pile—a prototype battery consisting of alternating discs of dissimilar metals (for example, copper and zinc) separated by cardboard soaked in saltwater. 

G. Cantoni (1818-1897), was the successor of Giuseppe Belli on the Chair of Physics of the University of Pavia, which formerly was the Chair of Alessandro Volta... 

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