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- Alessandro Volta, an Italian physicist and inventor of the electric battery
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- Volta Prize, an award established by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1801–1802, and awarded by the French government for scientific achievement in electricity. Named after physicist Alessandro Volta.
- Volta Conference an interwar cycle of cultural meetings, named after physicist Alessandro Volta.
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