Alessandro Volta, born on 18 February 1745, was an
Italian physicist and chemist who was a pioneer of electricity and power, who
is credited as the inventor of the electric battery and the discoverer of
methane. He invented the voltaic pile in 1799, and reported the results of his
experiments in 1800 in a two-part letter to the president of the Royal Society.
With this invention Volta proved that electricity could be generated chemically
and debunked the prevalent theory that electricity was generated solely by
living beings. Volta's invention sparked a great amount of scientific
excitement and led others to conduct similar experiments, which eventually led
to the development of the field of electrochemistry.
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