P Mazzarello, Istituto di Genetica Biochimica ed Evoluzionistica – CNR, Pavia, Italy
Published online: April 2001
DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0002529
1843–1926 Italian doctor who developed the first method to stain a nerve cell in its entirety, discovered the Golgi apparatus of the cell, described the intraerythrocytic cycle of the malaria parasite Plasmodium in humans, and identified the Golgi tendon organs.
Keywords: nervous system; black reaction; Golgi apparatus; malaria; Ramón y Cajal
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Figure 1. Camillo Golgi (1843–1926), at the time of his studies on malaria, in 1889. Picture courtesy of the Institute of General Pathology of the University of Pavia.
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| Further Reading | |
| Golgi C (1873) Sulla struttura della sostanza grigia del cervello. Gazzetta Medica Italiana – Lombardia 33: 244–246. | |
| book Golgi C (1885) Sulla Fina Anatomia degli Organi Centrali del Sistema Nervoso. Reggio Emilia: Calderini. | |
| book Bentivoglio M and Vignolo LA (eds) (1999) "Camillo Golgi and the neurosciences". Journal of the History of the Neurosciences 8: 103–214. | |
| book Dictionary of Scientific Biography (1970–1980) Gillispie CC (ed.). New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. | |
| book Mazzarello P (1999) The Hidden Structure. A Scientific Biography of Camillo Golgi. Oxford: Oxford University Press. | |
| Mazzarello P and Bentivoglio M (1998) The centenarian Golgi apparatus. Nature 392: 543–544. | |
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