This man may not have received his Nobel Prize had Gustaf Retzius not resigned from the Caroline Institute several years before, or had Carl Sundberg not championed this man, playing down his support of the reticular theory and his views that dendrites played no role in conducting electrical impulses, or had Bror Gadelius and Emil Holmgren been more convincing in their arguments that (*) Santiago Ramon y Cajal be given the full prize instead of sharing it with this man.  That prize was largely for using a silver-containing compound to completely stain a small percentage of neurons, not for discovering an organelle believed for many years to b
This man may not have received his Nobel Prize had Gustaf Retzius not resigned from the Caroline Institute several years before, or had Carl Sundberg not championed this man, playing down his support of the reticular theory and his views that dendrites played no role in conducting electrical impulses, or had Bror Gadelius and Emil Holmgren been more convincing in their arguments that (*) Santiago Ramon y Cajal be given the full prize instead of sharing it with this man.  That prize was largely for using a silver-containing compound to completely stain a small percentage of neurons, not for discovering an organelle believed for many years to be an artifact of that stain.  For 10 points, name this Italian scientist who discovered a namesake "body" that packages proteins.
This man may not have received his Nobel Prize had Gustaf Retzius not resigned from the Caroline Institute several years before, or had Carl Sundberg not championed this man, playing down his support of the reticular theory and his views that dendrites played no role in conducting electrical impulses, or had Bror Gadelius and Emil Holmgren been more convincing in their arguments that (*) Santiago Ramon y Cajal be given the full prize instead of sharing it with this man.  
Camillo {Golgi} (1) [DW]