Way back in 1896, the Swiss scientist Rudolf Albert von Koelliker coined the term “axon” to describe the thin cable of a nerve cell that transmits electrical pulses away from the body of the cell. Even further back, however, in 1781, Italian microscopist Felice Fontana already described nerve cells as having "uniform and simple cylinders,"…
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