Alessandro Volta

GPTKB entity

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Predicate Object
gptkbp:instance_of gptkb:Physicist
gptkb:Inventor
gptkbp:active_years 1774-1827
gptkbp:associated_with gptkb:Royal_Society_of_London
gptkb:University_of_Pavia
Italian Enlightenment
gptkbp:awarded_for gptkb:Copley_Medal
gptkbp:awards gptkb:Copley_Medal
gptkbp:birth_date 1745-02-18
gptkbp:born_in gptkb:Como,_Italy
gptkbp:burial_place gptkb:Cemetery_of_San_Fedele
gptkbp:cause_of_death natural causes
gptkbp:children three children
gptkbp:contribution gptkb:Voltaic_pile
pioneering work in electrochemistry
study of electricity
discovery of methane
Volta's law of capacitance
Volta's experiment with frogs
gptkbp:death_date 1827-03-05
gptkbp:died_in gptkb:Como,_Italy
gptkbp:family married to Teresa Peregrini
gptkbp:famous_for Volta's law of capacitance
Volta's law of electric current
Volta's law of electric potential
Volta's law of electrolysis
gptkbp:field electromagnetism
electrophysics
gptkbp:field_of_study electricity and magnetism
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Alessandro Volta
gptkbp:influenced gptkb:Andrew_Strominger
gptkb:Julius_von_Mayer
gptkb:Max_Planck
gptkb:Michael_Green
gptkb:Hermann_von_Helmholtz
gptkb:Wolfgang_Pauli
gptkb:Ludwig_Boltzmann
gptkb:Niels_Bohr
gptkb:David_Bohm
gptkb:Leonard_Susskind
gptkb:Nikola_Tesla
gptkb:Richard_Feynman
gptkb:Albert_Einstein
gptkb:David_Gross
gptkb:Edward_Witten
gptkb:James_Clerk_Maxwell
gptkb:John_von_Neumann
gptkb:Stephen_Hawking
gptkb:Thomas_Edison
gptkb:Brian_Greene
gptkb:Juan_Maldacena
gptkb:Michael_Faraday
gptkb:Heinrich_Hertz
gptkb:Paul_Dirac
gptkb:Marie_Curie
gptkb:Nima_Arkani-Hamed
gptkb:William_Thomson
gptkb:Cumrun_Vafa
gptkb:John_Schwarz
gptkb:Richard_P._Feynman
gptkb:Lisa_Randall
gptkb:Gustav_Kirchhoff
gptkb:Roger_Penrose
gptkb:Alfred_Nobel
gptkb:Enrico_Fermi
gptkb:Erwin_Schrödinger
Anders Jonas Ångström
gptkbp:influenced_by gptkb:Isaac_Newton
gptkbp:invention gptkb:Volta's_electrophorus
Voltaic cell
electrical battery
voltaic pile patent
gptkbp:is_recognized_by unit of electric potential (volt) named after him
gptkbp:known_for gptkb:electricity
inventing the electric battery
Volta's law
voltaic pile
discovering methane
gptkbp:legacy pioneering work in electricity
inspiration for future scientists
influence on modern physics
impact on electrical engineering
Voltaic unit
gptkbp:nationality gptkb:Italian
gptkbp:notable_work gptkb:Philosophical_Transactions
De vi electricae
gptkbp:occupation gptkb:Physicist
gptkb:Scientist
gptkbp:residence gptkb:Pavia,_Italy
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Museo_Nazionale_della_Storia_della_Scienza_e_della_Tecnologia
gptkb:Volta_Prize
gptkb:Luca
gptkb:Pavia
gptkb:Lake_Como
gptkbp:bfsLayer 4