Camillo Golgi and Santiago Ramón y Cajal: Nobel Prize-winning pioneers who described the nervous system
Though divided by fierce scientific rivalry — Golgi defending the idea of a continuous nerve network, Cajal championing the “neuron doctrine”, their discoveries together reshaped biology. Golgi’s revolutionary staining method revealed the hidden architecture of nerve cells, while Cajal’s interpretations proved that the nervous system was made of individual units: neurons. Their Nobel Prize marked…