Volta Prize for galvanoplasty, to Duchenne de Boulogne for the applications of electricity in medicine, to Gaston Planté for a development of a secondary battery, and to for his research on electric currents. Volta Prize The Volta Prize (French: prix Volta) was originally established by Napoleon III during the Second French Empire in 1852 to honor Alessandro Volta, an Italian physicist noted for developing the electric battery. This international prize awarded 50,000 French francs to extraordinary scientific discoveries related to electricity. The prize was instituted by the Ministry of Public Instruction with the personal funding of the French Emperor, the selection committee
Alessandro Bruschetti Alessandro Bruschetti Alessandro Bruschetti (1910 – 2 January 1980) was an Italian Futurist artist. The second most important Futurist painter from Umbria. Bruschetti was born in 1910 in Perugia which is where he studied art. He was influenced by a meeting with the futurist artist Gerardo Dottori. He is considered the second most important Futurist painter from Umbria after Dottori. In 1931 he moved to Rome to train as a teacher. Whilst he was there, one of his paintings, "Dynamism of horses", was lauded by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti who was the founder of futurism. With Marinetti's approval he joined the