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 Nerve Organ.

Key points The decades-long debate between Nobelists Santiago Ramón y Cajal and Camillo Golgi can be seen as giving birth to the field of neuroscience. In understanding their struggle it can be ...

In 1898, Camillo Golgi, an eminent Italian physician and pathologist, published a landmark paper on the structure of “nervous cells.” In addition to the organelle that still bears his name, the Golgi ...

The Golgi organelle is named for Camillo Golgi, the Italian scientist and Nobel Prize winner who discovered the structure in 1898. It is composed of a network of sacs, stacked like a deck of ...

In 1906, biologists Camillo Golgi and Santiago Ramón y Cajal shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries that illuminated the physical structures of the human brain. Working ...