Camillo Golgi (jan 1, 1844 – jan 1, 1926)
Description:
Italian-Developed staining techniques in order to define details of brain tissue post-autopsy by immersing sections of brain tissue into silver nitrate, staining the abnormalities and making them identifiable/observable under a microscope
-Identified specific cells, which are now called "neurons"
-Believed that the nervous system was comprised of neurons, which was correct, but also thought that the whole system was physically connected as a "nerve network"
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Date:
jan 1, 1844
jan 1, 1926
~ 82 years