It was identified in 1897 by the Italian physician Camillo Golgi and named after him in 1898.

It was discovered in 1897 by Italian physician Camillo Golgi during an investigation of the nervous system.

* 1843 – Camillo Golgi, Italian physician, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1926 )

The anatomist Camillo Golgi grouped neurons into two types ; type I with long axons used to move signals over long distances and type II with short axons, which can often be confused with dendrites.

Drawing by Camillo Golgi of a hippocampus stained with the silver nitrate method

To observe the structure of individual neurons, Ramón y Cajal improved a silver staining process known as Golgi's method, which had been developed by his rival, Camillo Golgi.

Studies of the brain became more sophisticated after the invention of the microscope and the development of a staining procedure by Camillo Golgi during the late 1890s.

* January 21 – Camillo Golgi, Italian physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ( b. 1843 )

* Medicine – Camillo Golgi and Santiago Ramón y Cajal

* July 7 – Camillo Golgi, Italian physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ( d. 1926 )

During this Austrian period the University was greatly supported by Maria Theresa of Austria and saw a great renaissance that eventually led to a second renaissance due to the presence of leading scientists and humanists like Ugo Foscolo, Alessandro Volta, Lazzaro Spallanzani, Camillo Golgi among others.

* Camillo Golgi ( 1843 – 1926 ), biologist and Nobel laureate

Among the illustrious scholars who studied or taught at the University of Pavia, the following are at least worth remembering: Carlo Goldoni, Gerolamo Cardano, Gerolamo Saccheri, Ugo Foscolo, Alessandro Volta the inventor of the battery, Lazzaro Spallanzani, Antonio Scarpa, Carlo Forlanini and the Nobel laureate biologist Camillo Golgi.

In the early 20th century, Santiago Ramón y Cajal and Camillo Golgi began working on the structure of the neuron.

Camillo Golgi was born in July 1843 in the village of Corteno, Lombardy, then part of the Austrian Empire.

Drawing by Camillo Golgi of a hippocampus stained with the silver nitrate method.

On the basament, there is the following inscription in Italian language: " Camillo Golgi / patologo sommo / della scienza istologica / antesignano e maestro / la segreta struttura / del tessuto nervoso / con intenta vigilia / sorprese e descrisse / qui operò / qui vive / guida e luce ai venturi / MDCCCXLIII – MCMXXVI " ( Camillo Golgi / outstanding pathologist / of histological science / precursor and master / the secret structure / of the nervous tissue / with strenuous effort / discovered and described / here he worked / here he lives / here he guides and enlightens future scholars / 1843 – 1926 ).

* Life and Discoveries of Camillo Golgi

* Some places and memories related to Camillo Golgi

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A BBC Radio English-language radio dramatization of The Little World of Don Camillo was broadcast in 2001 starring Alun Armstrong as Don Camillo, John Moffatt as the Bishop, Shaun Prendergast as Peppone and Joss Ackland as God, and rebroadcast in July 2010 on BBC Radio 7.

Giovannino Oliviero Giuseppe Guareschi (; May 1, 1908 – July 22, 1968 ) was an Italian journalist, cartoonist and humorist whose most famous creation is the priest Don Camillo.

Their son Julian Camillo Adam Fontana was born in Paris on 10 July 1853.

On May 7, 1789, Graff informed Count Camillo Marcolini, general director of the Dresden Art Academy, about this.

There is also a museum dedicated to Camillo Golgi who was born in Corteno in 1843.

Golgi's method is a nervous tissue staining technique discovered by Italian physician and scientist Camillo Golgi ( 1843 – 1926 ) in 1873.

The surname was ascribed to the Register of the Vassals and recognized of ancient nobility in 1843 for the admission in the " Company of the Regal Watches " in person of Giovanni Camillo.

* 1810 – Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour, Italian diplomat and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Italy ( d. 1861 )

# Maria Paola or Marie Pauline Bonaparte ( 1780 – 1825 ), married in 1797 to French general Charles Leclerc and later married Prince Camillo Borghese.

* Camillo Laurenti ( 17 December 1928 – 16 December 1935 )

* Camillo Caccia-Dominioni ( 16 December 1935 – 12 November 1946 )

* Camillo Walzel ( 1829 – 1895 ) librettist and theatre director, who wrote under the pseudonym F Zell

* 1920 – Camillo Felgen, Luxembourgish singer ( d. 2005 )

* 1852 – Count Camillo Benso di Cavour becomes the prime minister of Piedmont-Sardinia, which soon expands to become Italy.

* The church of Sant ' Andrea al Quirinale was designed by Gian Lorenzo Bernini ( 1658 – 1671 ), for Cardinal Camillo Pamphilii ( nephew of Pope Innocent X ); it is one of the most elegant samples of baroque architecture in Rome, with its splendid interior of marble, stuccoes, and gilded decorations.

Pope Paul V ( 17 September 1552 – 28 January 1621 ), born Camillo Borghese, was Pope from 16 May 1605 until his death.

For the Basilica of St. Anthony, Donatello created, most famously, the bronze Crucifix of 1444 – 1447 and additional statues for the choir, including a Madonna with Child and six saints, constituting a Holy Conversation, which is no longer visible since the renovation by Camillo Boito in 1895.

* Camillo – An honest Sicilian nobleman, he refuses to follow Leontes's order to poison Polixenes, deciding instead to flee Sicily and enter the Bohemian King's service.

* Henry Anthony Camillo Howard ( 1954 – 1956 )

* Camillo Cibo ( Cybo ) ( 1718 – 1729 )

* Camillo Laurenti ( 12 March 1929 – 6 September 1938 )