Volta, Alessandro (Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio)
Volta, Alessandro (Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio)
(born Feb. 18, 1745, Como, Lombardy—died March 5, 1827, Como) Italian scientist. In 1775 he invented the electrophorus, a device used to generate static electricity. He taught physics at the University of Pavia (1779–1804). After Luigi Galvani in 1780 produced an electric current by connecting two different metals with the muscle of a frog, Volta began experimenting in 1794 with metals alone and found that animal tissue was not needed to produce current. He demonstrated the first electric battery in 1800. In 1801 he demonstrated the battery's generation of current before Napoleon, who made him a count and senator of the kingdom of Lombardy. In 1815 he was appointed director of the philosophical faculty at the University of Padua. The volt was named in his honour in 1881.
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| Crater | Diameter | Eponym |
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| Ukert | 23 km | Friedrich August Ukert (1780-1851) |
| Ulugh Beigh | 54 km | Ulugh Beg (1394-1449) |
| Urey | 38 km | Harold Urey (1893-1981) |
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| Crater | Diameter | Eponym |
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| Xenophanes | 125 km | Xenophanes (570-480 B.C.) |
| Xenophon | 25 km | Xenophon (427-355 B.C.) |
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| Yablochkov | 99 km | Pavel Nikolayevich Yablochkov (1847-1894) |
| Yakovkin | 37 km | Avenir Aleksandrovich Yakovkin (1887-1974) |
| Yamamoto | 76 km | Issei Yamamoto (1889-1959) |
| Yangel' | 8 km | Mikhail Kuzmich Yangel' (1911-1971) |
| Yerkes | 36 km | Charles Tyson Yerkes (1837-1905) |
| Yoshi | 1 km | (Japanese male name) |
| Young | 71 km | Thomas Young (1773-1829) |
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| Crater | Diameter | Eponym |
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| Zach | 70 km | Franz Xaver von Zach (1754-1832) |
| Zagut | 84 km | Abraham Ben Samuel Zagut (circa 1450-circa 1522) |
| Zähringer | 11 km | Joseph Zähringer (1929-1970) |
| Zanstra | 42 km | Herman Zanstra (1894-1972) |
| Zasyadko | 11 km | Alexander Dmitrievich Zasyadko (1779-1837) |
| Zeeman | 190 km | Pieter Zeeman (1865-1943) |
| Zelinskiy | 53 km | Nikolay Dimitrievich Zelinskiy (1860-1953) |
| Zeno | 65 km | Zeno of Citium (circa 335-263 B.C.) |
| Zernike | 48 km | Frits Zernike (1888-1966) |
| Zhiritskiy | 35 km | Georgiy Sergeevich Zhiritskiy (1893-1966) |
| Zhukovskiy | 81 km | Nikolay Egorovich Zhukovskiy (1847-1921) |
| Zinner | 4 km | Ernst Zinner (1886-1970) |
| Zöllner | 47 km | Johann Karl Friedrich Zöllner (1834-1882) |
| Zsigmondy | 65 km | Richard Adolf Zsigmondy (1865-1929) |
| Zucchius | 64 km | Niccolò Zucchi (1586-1670) |
| Zupus | 38 km | Giovanni Battista Zupi (circa 1590-1650) |
| Zwicky | 150 km | Fritz Zwicky (1898-1974) |
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