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Alessandro Volta Biography

Alessandro Volta (1745-1827) Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio
Volta, Italian physicist, was born on February 18, 1745 in the Italian city of Como, and received primary and secondary education of human characteristics, but to reach higher education chose by scientific training. In 1774, he became professor of physics at the Royal School of Como Just one year after Volta made his first invention: a device related to electricity. With two metal plates separated by a moist conductor, but together with an external circuit achieved for the first time, producing electric current, invented the perpetual electrophorus a device once it is loaded you can transfer electricity to other objects. Between 1776 and 1778 is devoted to chemistry, discovered and isolated methane gas. A year later, in 1779, he was appointed professor of experimental physics professor at the University of Pavia.
Volta was a friend of Luigi Galvani and when he discovered in 1780, that contact with two different metals with the muscle of a frog produced electricity, also began to make their own electricity-animal experiments, but reached a different conclusion in the year 1794: it was not necessary involvement of the muscles of animals to produce current.
This finding, we produced a multiplicity of conflicts, not only with his friend Galvani, but most physicists of the time who were adherents to the idea that electricity is only produced through contact of two dissimilar metals with animal muscle. However, when Volta was able to build the first electric battery, showed that he was right and won the battle against his colleagues. Volta
stack, consists of thirty metal disks separated by wet cloth. During the first part of the nineteenth century, were built as sources of current.
Alessandro Volta announced his discovery of the stack to the Royal London Society, the March 20, 1800. The relevant letter was read in open court on 26 June of that year, and after views of the invention made by the members of society Volta was awarded the credits.
In 1801, he traveled to Paris to accept a Napoleon Bonaparte's invitation to expose the features of his invention at the National Institute of Sciences of France. Bonaparte himself enthusiastically participated in relevant meetings and exhibitions and Volta recommended for top honors for him. On 2 November the same year, the commission of distinguished scientists from the National Institute of Sciences to evaluate the invention of Volta, issued a report asserting its validity and recommending to Volta the highest distinction of the institution, the gold medal scientific merit.
Volta was widely recognized throughout Europe: In 1805, Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte assigned an annual pension and appointed him a Knight of the Legion of Honor. In 1806 it becomes Knight of the Royal Italian Order of the Iron Crown. In 1809, Senator of the Kingdom of Italy, and in 1810, Count of the Kingdom of Italy.
After the fall of Napoleon and the subsequent restoration of Austria, the Imperial Government of Vienna in 1815 he was appointed director of the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Padua. In 1819 Volta abandoned public life and retired to his hometown. After a short illness, died in like 5 March 1827 at the age of 82.