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Camillo Golgi

Camillo Golgi was born in July 1843 in Corteno, Italy.

Golgi, together with Santiago Ramón y Cajal, received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1906 for his studies of the structure of the nervous system.

Golgi died in Pavia, Italy, in January 1926.

The Golgi apparatus is named after him.

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