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Alessandro Volta

1745–1827

Alessandro Volta (1745–1827) was an Italian physicist and chemist, best known for inventing the electric battery (the Voltaic pile) in 1800, which provided the first continuous source of electric current. His work laid the foundation for electrochemistry and modern electrical science, and he also discovered methane and improved the electrophorus. Volta was a professor at the University of Pavia and received honors from Napoleon Bonaparte.

Physics

De vi attractiva ignis electrici (On the Attractive Force of Electric Fire, 1769)
Lettere sull'aria infiammabile nativa delle paludi (Letters on the Flammable Air of Marshes, 1776)
On the Electricity Excited by the Mere Contact of Conducting Substances of Different Kinds (1800, letter to the Royal Society)
Memorie sull'elettricità (Memoirs on Electricity, 1800)

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