The Legacy of Galvani and Volta in contemporary science

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1. Historical aspects connected with Galvani
   A1. Luigi Galvani
   A2. Galvani physician, anatomist and obstetrician
   A3. Animal electricity
   A4. Galvani's frogs: original tables from the De viribus electricitatis in motu musculari. Commentarius
2. Historical aspects connected with Volta
   B1. Alessandro Volta
   B2. Volta physicist and "pneumatic" chemist
   B3. Volta "electrifying physicist"
   B4. Volta's pile
3. The Galvani-Volta controversy
   C1. Galvani and Volta: the controversy (I)
   C2. Galvani and Volta: the controversy (II)
   C3. Galvani andVolta: the controversy (III)
4. Modern biological aspects
   D1. The brain: the electrical signal
   D2. The brain: the transduction of the electric signal into chemical signal and vice-versa
   D3. Nerves and muscles
   D4. The muscle: the molecular structure and the electromechanical coupling
   D5. Positron emission tomography (PET)
   D6. Hadrontherapy
   D7. Computed tomography
5. Modern physics aspects
   E1. Modern piles
   E2. Cosmic rays and particle astrophysics
   E3. Neutrinos from the stars
   E4. Neutrino oscillations. Atmospheric neutrinos
   E5. Scientific use of space
   E6. Electroweak unification
   E7. Open problems in the unification of the forces
   E8. Electromagnetic waves. Radio communications
   E9. High energy accelerators
   E10. Internet and World Wide Web: Sheeps and Particles
6. Historical instruments connected with Galvani and Volta
   F1. Copy of the electrostatic machine of Galvani
   F2. Copy of the "pila a colonna" of Volta
   F3. Various books
7. Technical terms containing Galvani and Volta names
8. Popularized Scientific material from CERN, INFN, University of Bologna and of Pavia, Committees for the Galvani and Volta Celebrations, Sapere

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A cura di Roberto Giacomelli.