Camillo Golgi
1843 – 1926 · Italy · Medicine, Biology
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1906
The silver stain that made neurons visible.
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- Santiago Ramón y Cajal
1852 – 1934 · Medicine, Biology
Cajal used Golgi's stain to prove Golgi wrong: neurons are discrete cells.
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