Carlo Giacomini, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Carlo Giacomini

Italian neuroscientist

Date of Birth: 29-Nov-1840

Place of Birth: Sale, Piedmont, Italy

Date of Death: 05-Jul-1898

Profession: neuroscientist, anatomist

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Carlo Giacomini (Sale, 29 November 1840 – Torino, 5 July 1898), was a noted Italian anatomist, neuroscientist, and a professor at the University of Turin who also made significant contributions in anthropology and embryology.
He worked with the physiologist, Angelo Mosso (1846-1910), which led to the first recording of human brain pulsations.
Giacomini vein, a lower limb vein, and the band of Gaicomini, a band of uncus gyri parahippocampalis he discovered in 1882, and the Giacomini vertebrae are named after him. He contributed anthropological research regarding differences among human races, and also took an interest in teratology linked to the various cases.