Who they are
Camillo Golgi developed staining methods that made nerve-cell structures visible under the microscope. Santiago Ramón y Cajal used and modified those methods in his 1888 study of the bird cerebellum. Golgi’s place in this timeline is therefore a methodological contribution: an observational technique that enabled another researcher to investigate nervous-system organization.
He demonstrates how a new method of seeing can make a new biological explanation possible.
Selected contributions
- Developed the staining methods used and adapted in Cajal’s 1888 report.Source ↗
In the timeline
Biography sources & portrait credit
- Estructura de los centros nerviosos de las aves ↗Revista Trimestral de Histología Normal y Patológica 1; Universidad de Zaragoza, Repositorio Zaguán
Portrait credit
Unknown photographer. Public domain (Commons file-specific copyright declaration). Via Wikimedia Commons.
Photograph. Cropped to 4:5, resized to 320 × 400 and converted to WebP.
Image source & identification ↗ · Public domain (Commons file-specific copyright declaration) ↗
