- The Golgi apparatus was named after Camillo Golgi (Nobel Prize 1906), who discovered this cell structure in nerve cells (1898) and assigned it the role of a cell organelle.
- Camillo Golgi (1883) developed the method for silver impregnation and with it, he provided the light for a view of a plethora of different structures in and around nerve cells.   Silver impregnation shows the cell body and all its processes as a black cell silhouette against a yellow-brown or red-brown background.  It is characteristic of the Golgi method to only capture one of several cells and their processes but, in a somewhat capricious way, capture it down to their most minute detail.  These detailed images make the Golgi method invaluable for research into the structure of neurons and the distribution of their synapses, even today.

Reference:
1. Color Atlas of Cytology, Histology, and Microscopic Anatomy 4th Edition. Wolfgang Kuehnel, M.D. Thieme Publications. 2003.