Alessandro Volta Professions : Physicist Born : February 18, 1745 Died : March 5, 1827 Browse All Authors Top 4 quotes by Alessandro Volta You must be ready to give up even the most attractive ideas when experiment shows them to be wrong. Alessandro Volta attractive giving-up ideas Each metal has a certain power, which is different from metal to metal, of setting the electric fluid in motion. Alessandro Volta differences different science What is it possible to do well, in physics particularly, if things are not reduced to degrees and measures? Alessandro Volta wells degrees physics I continue coupling a plate of silver with one of zinc, and always in the same order... and place between each of these couples a moistened disk. I continue to form a column. If the column contains about twenty of these couples of metal, it will be capable of giving to the fingers several small shocks. Alessandro Volta zinc couple order Similar Authors Gabriel Lippmann physicist Burton Richter physicist Bruno Rossi physicist Bruce Maccabee physicist Brian Cox physicist Allan McLeod Cormack physicist All Authors
