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Galvin (surname) Galvin (Gallivan) is a name of Irish extraction and originated as part of the Dál Cais dynasty. Notable people with the surname include:
*Bob Galvin (1922–2011), Chairman and CEO of Motorola
* Connor Galvin, American football player
*Elliot Galv ...
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Galvin, Washington
Galvin is an unincorporated community in Lewis County, Washington, United States, near Lincoln Creek and the Chehalis River. The town is four miles (6.4 km) northwest of Centralia.
Galvin was platted on June 3, 1910 as a logging
Loggin ...
, U.S.
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Galvin railway station
Galvin railway station is a closed railway station which was located on the Werribee line of the Melbourne suburban rail system in Australia. It was located adjacent to Maidstone Street, Altona, and was situated between Paisley and Laverto ...
, Melbourne, Australia
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Galvin Manufacturing Corporation
Motorola, Inc. () was an American multinational telecommunications company based in Schaumburg, Illinois, United States. After having lost $4.3 billion from 2007 to 2009, the company split into two independent public companies, Motorola ...
, later renamed Motorola
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Luigi Galvani
Luigi Galvani (, also ; ; la, Aloysius Galvanus; 9 September 1737 – 4 December 1798) was an Italian physician, physicist, biologist and philosopher, who studied animal electricity. In 1780, he discovered that the muscles of dead frogs' legs ...
, Italian physician and physicist
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Galvanism
Galvanism is a term invented by the late 18th-century physicist and chemist Alessandro Volta to refer to the generation of electric current by chemical action. The term also came to refer to the discoveries of its namesake, Luigi Galvani, specif ...
, a muscle contraction stimulated by an electric current
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