Google has celebrated the 270th birthday of the Italian physicist Alessandro Volta with a doodle on its homepage. Volta, who was born Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta, is best known for inventing the first battery.
Born in Como, Italy, he gave his name to the electrical unit 'volt' in 1881. In 1774, Volta became the professor of physics at the Royal School of Como. A year later, he invented the electrophorus: a device used to generate static electricity.
Source: http://www.independent.co.uk/
