Tribute to Mr. Alessandro volta the great physicist, chemist inventor of electric battery & methane

Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta lived between February 18, 1745 to March 5, 1827 was an Italian physicist, chemist, and 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. Volta was born in Como, a town in present-day northern Italy, on February 18, 1745. In 1794, Volta married an aristocratic lady also from Como, Teresa Peregrini, with whom he raised three sons, Zanino, Flaminio, and Luigi. His father, Filippo Volta, was of noble lineage. His mother, Donna Maddalena, came from the family of the Inzaghistad in the years between 1776 and 1778. Volta studied the chemistry of gases. He researched and discovered methane after reading a paper by Benjamin Franklin of the United States on flammable air despite his professional success. Volta tended to be a person inclined towards domestic life and this was more apparent in his later years. At this time he tended to live secluded from public life and more for the sake of his family until his eventual death in 1827 from a series of illnesses which began in 1823. The SI unit of electric potential is named in his honor as the Volt.