Golgi, Camillo, << GAWL jee, kah MEEL loh >> (1843?-1926), an Italian anatomist and pathologist, shared the 1906 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for his studies on the structure of the nervous system. In 1873, he developed a method of staining tissues with silver nitrate for microscopic study. He later discovered the “Golgi cells”—nerve cells with long or short axons (nerve fibers)—and described the nerve endings in tendons and muscles. Golgi was born on July 7, probably in 1843, in what is now Corteno Golgi, Italy, near Sondrio. He died on Jan. 21, 1926.
