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Article: Bicentennial of Alessandro Volta's Invention of the "Electric Pile": Discovery of the Electrical Basis of Chemistry.
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- Canadian Chemical News
- Article date:
- January 1, 2000
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A great legacy for chemistry and physics, celebrated in Pavia.
The International Society of Electrochemistry (ISE) has recently celebrated the 200th anniversary of the invention of the so-called electric "pile" by Alessandro Volta, at a major conference held in the historic university town of Pavia, Italy, where most of Volta's research and many of his discoveries were made. About 500 participants from various countries in the world, including several researchers from Canada, were in attendance. He was born in Como in 1745, where the Volta museum displays much of his original apparatus. Later in his life he became Rector of the University of Pavia. During a visit ...