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TO few men of science has more homage been paid than to the Italian physicist Alessandro Volta. In his life-time he was received into the highest scientific circles, and the centenary of his most important discovery and the centenary of his death were the occasions of great international gatherings in the land of his birth. Since then, through the munificence of Signor Somani, Como, where Volta was born and where he died, has been enriched with a beautiful Volta Temple, a finely designed circular hall surmounted by a dome. This interesting building stands in the public gardens near the edge of a lake in Como, from which can be seen the waters, the fields and woods and the mountains amidst which Volta grew up, a student and a sportsman. For centuries the family from which he sprang had been associated with the district, and its coat-of-arms consisted of a vault (in Italian, volta) of a silver gate on a blue background.
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SMITH, E. Alessandro Volta, 1745–1827. Nature 155, 473–474 (1945). https://doi.org/10.1038/155473a0
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