Carlo Matteucci

Italian physicist

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In defibrillation: History of defibrillation
…1790s and by Italian physicist Carlo Matteucci in the 1840s, shed light on the electrical properties of animal tissues. In fact, Matteucci, in his studies of electricity detection in pigeons, was the first to detect an electrical current in the heart. Research performed in the following decades led to an…
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