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- Camillo Golgi (born July 7, 1843/44, Corteno, Italy—died Jan. 21, 1926, Pavia) was an Italian physician and cytologist whose investigations into the fine structure of the nervous system earned him (with the Spanish histologist Santiago Ramón y Cajal) the 1906 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine.
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Camillo Golgi was an Italian physician and cytologist whose investigations into the fine structure of the nervous system earned him (with the Spanish histologist Santiago Ramón y Cajal) the 1906 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine.
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Camillo Golgiwas born in July 1843 in Corteno, a village in the mountains near Brescia in northern Italy, where his father was working as a district medical officer. He studied medicine at the University of Pavia, where he attended as an ‘intern student’ the Institute of Psychiatry directed by Cesare Lombroso (1835-1909). Golgi also worked in the l...
Golgi’s discovery of the black reaction and his subsequent investigations provided a substantial contribution to the advancement of the knowledge on the structural organization of the nervous tissue. The theory that tissues are composed of individual cellular elements (the cell theory) had been enunciated in 1838-1839 by Matthias Jacob Schleiden (1...
Thanks are due to Dr. Paolo Mazzarello for his help and advice. Photos were kindly provided by Museo di Storia dell’Università di Pavia – Museum for the History of the University of Pavia, Director: Dr. Alberto Calligaro and from the book by Dr. Paolo Mazzarello “La struttura nascosta”, Cisalpino, Istituto Editoriale Universitario – Monduzzi Editor...
Dec 18, 2022 · Camillo Golgi (Figure 1) is one of the most prestigious personalities of modern medicine. His success is due to the revolutionary research he has conducted in fields such as cell biology, histology, anatomy, neurology, neuroscience and parasitology.
- 10.3390/cells11244112
- 2022/12
- Cells. 2022 Dec; 11(24): 4112.
Dec 12, 2020 · Camillo Golgi was an extraordinary scientist whose contributions in the domain of neuroanatomy proved to be critical for emergence of neuroscience as a sovereign scientific discipline.
- Sanjib Kumar Ghosh
- 10.5115/acb.20.196
- 2020
- Anat Cell Biol. 2020 Dec 31; 53(4): 385-392.
2 days ago · Summary. Camillo Golgi (1843–1926), a physician and researcher from Lombardy, was a leading figure in Italian science in the second half of the 19th century. His name is linked to several fundamental contributions: the invention of the “black reaction,” a method that made it possible to highlight, for the first time in history, the fine ...
In 1873, Camillo Golgi developed a breakthrough method for viewing neurons microscopically. He came to believe, however, that all neurons were fused together, making one vast reticulum or...
Dec 31, 2020 · Camillo Golgi was an extraordinary scientist whose contributions in the domain of neuroanatomy proved to be critical for emergence of neuroscience as a sovereign scientific discipline.
