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Here is a brief description of these great personalities. (1) Camillo Golgi - Well known for his discovery of Golgi body/complex/apparatus. A cell organelle in which synthesis of enzymes and hormones takes place. Golgi developed staining techniques for nerve cells, which are useful even today. He also discovered that the malarial parasite grows and multiplies in red blood cells of the human patients. (2) Marcello Malpighi – Discovered the Malpighian bodies in Kidney. He also found the fine tubules attached to the gut of insects helping in excretory process. The tubules are called Malpighian tubules. (3) Filipo Pacini – Pacinian corpuscles are onion bulb like microscopic structures in our skin. Largest of them are barely visible to the naked eye. They are helpful in perceiving touch/ pressure sensation. (4) Angelo Ruffini – Ruffini’s nerve endings present in the skin are receptors for mechanical stress. (5) Gabrielle Fallapio – Fallopian tubes a pair of ducts carrying an ovum to uterus in female reproductive system, was one of the many discoveries he made in mid-sixteenth century. Look at the description he makes of the fallopian tubes –
