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Categories: 1827 deaths, Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference, 18th-century Italian physicists, 18th-century Italian inventors, Italian scientific instrument makers
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Volta  Count Alessandro Volta  Conte Alessandro Volta  Conte Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta  Alessandro Volta
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Italian physicist after whom the volt is named; studied electric currents and invented the voltaic pile (1745-1827) WordNet 3.0
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Italian physicist after whom the volt is named; studied electric currents and invented the voltaic pile (1745-1827) WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta was an Italian physicist and chemist who was a pioneer of electricity and power and is credited as the inventor of the electric battery and the discoverer of methane. Wikipedia
The Italian physicist after whom the term volt is named Wikipedia Disambiguation
Italian physicist and inventor of the electric battery, count and eponym of the volt Wikipedia Disambiguation
Italian physicist, chemist, and pioneer of electricity and power Wikidata
IS A
physicist
homo
AWARD RECEIVED
Copley Medal
Knight of the Legion of Honour
Fellow of the Royal Society
COUNTRY OF CITIZENSHIP
Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia
Kingdom of Italy
Cisalpine Republic
Duchy of Milan
DESCRIBED BY SOURCE
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
Catholic Encyclopedia
Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
Biographisch-literarisches Handwörterbuch zur Geschichte der exacten Wissenschaften
Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich
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EMPLOYER
University of Pavia
ETHNIC GROUP
Tigania
FIELD OF WORK
physiology
GIVEN NAME
Alessandro
HAS WORKS IN THE COLLECTION
Musée d'histoire des sciences de la Ville de Genève
LANGUAGES SPOKEN, WRITTEN OR SIGNED
Italian
Latin
MEMBER OF
Accademia nazionale delle scienze
Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities
Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
French Academy of Sciences
Prussian Academy of Sciences
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NOBLE TITLE
count
OCCUPATION
chemist
physicist
professor
PLACE OF BIRTH
Como
PLACE OF DEATH
Como
RELIGIOUS ORDER
Franciscan
RESIDENCE
Italy
SEX OR GENDER
male
WRITING LANGUAGE
Italian
WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
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Volta, Count Alessandro Volta, Conte Alessandro Volta, Conte Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta
Wikipedia
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Alessandro Volta
Wikidata
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Alessandro Volta
Wikipedia Redirections
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A. Volta, Alessandra Volta, Alessandrino Volta, Alessandro, Count Volta, Alessandro Count Volta, Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Gerolamo Umberto Volta, Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta, Alexander Volta, Allesandro volta, Count Volta Alessandro
Wikidata Alias
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Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta

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