In the spirit of all those Nobel prizes being awarded, I decided to look up who was the first Italian to receive one and it was this gentleman; it was for Medicine. Golgi was considered the greatest neuroscientist and biologist of his era which probably would be the Victorian period is my guess. Several neurological terms and techniques are named after him. You’ll have to look them up yourself, I never got good grades in the Biological sciences, one of my weaknesses in trivia circles too. It’s quite a list though so he must’ve made major strides in neuroscience to get this many.
- The organelle Golgi apparatus or Golgi complex
- The sensory receptor Golgi tendon organ
- Golgi’s method or Golgi stain, a nervous tissue staining technique
- The enzyme Golgi alpha-mannosidase II
- Golgi cells of the cerebellum
- Golgi I nerve cells (with long axons)
- Golgi II nerve cells (with short or no axons)