Camillo Golgi

Camillo Golgi

Camillo Golgi (1843-1926) Italian physician, pathologist and neuroscientist, after whom the intracellular organelle, Golgi apparatus is named. He made important contributions to neuroscience by perfecting a method for staining the nervous system, using mainly silver (now known as the Golgi stain). His researches into neurohistology led to the eventual acceptance of the neuron doctrine. He also discovered a tendon sensory organ (Golgi receptor) and was the first to show that the distal nephron in the kidney returns to the glomerulus from where it originated. Camillo Golgi shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1906 with the famous Spanish neurologist, Santiago Ramon y Cajal. In the town of Pavia, where Golgi studied and worked, there are several landmarks standing in his memory.