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Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1906 The Neuron Doctrine – Theory and Facts Pdf 462 kB

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Nobel Lecture, December 12, 1906 The Structure and Connexions of Neurons Pdf 705 kB

Artist: Olle Hjortzberg Courtesy: Museum of the History of the University of Pavia

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The Purkinje cell of the cerebellum is used as an example to illustrate the revelatory power of the Golgi stain, and why it was and still is important. The extension and orientation of dendrites of the Purkinje cells provided a key for the understanding of how the cerebellar cortex is built up and works (the…

by Marina Bentivoglio This article was published on 20 April 1998. Life and discoveries of Camillo Golgi Biographical sketch and scientific work was born in July 1843 in Corteno, a village in the mountains near Brescia in northern Italy, where his father was working as a district medical officer. He studied medicine at the University…