Camillo Golgi
Camillo Golgi ( July 7, 1843 * or 1844 in Corteno Golgi, Brescia, Italy, † January 21, 1926 in Pavia, Italy ) was an Italian physician and physiologist. He received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine together with Santiago Ramón y Cajal in 1906.
Golgi developed the eponymous Golgi staining, a method for staining individual nerve and cell structures, which became known as the "black reaction ". It was a histological staining with silver nitrate. For most of his life trying Golgi to improve this method and refine. Through them he discovered among other things named after him Golgi apparatus and the Golgi cells in the brain.
Life
Golgi was the son of a doctor. He studied medicine and graduated in 1865 at the University of Pavia. His academic teachers were especially Paolo Mantegazza, Giulio Bizzozero and Eusebio Oehl. After graduating, he continued his work at the hospital of St. Matteo. In 1872 he took over the position of Chief Medical Practitioner at The Hospital for chronic diseases in Abbiategrasso. Here he began his pioneering work on the nervous system in a remodeled kitchen. 1881 returned Golgi as Associate Professor of Histology at the University of Pavia in back and, after a brief stay in Siena the Chair of General Pathology. In 1890, he identified the three different causative agent of malaria and developed a method to photograph the stages of the parasite. During World War II, Golgi sat for a military hospital in Pavia one. Here he built a Neuro Pathology and Mechanopathologisches Institute for study and treatment of injuries of the peripheral nervous system.
Camillo Golgi in 1881 married the niece of his teacher Bizzozero, Donna Lina. They had no children, but adopted his niece Carolina.