Camillo Golgi (1843-1926)

Awarded the Prize “in recognition of their work on the structure of the nervous system.”

Italian pathologist. Golgi was born at Corteno in Italy on July 7, 1843. He studied medicine at the University of Pavia. After graduating in 1865 he continued to work in Pavia at the Hospital of St. Matteo. In 1872 he accepted the post of Chief Medical Officer at the Hospital for the Chronically Sick at Abbiategrasso. He returned to the University of Pavia as Extraordinary Professor of Histology and was appointed to the Chair for General Pathology in 1881. Golgi died at Pavia on January 21, 1926.