Carlo Giacomini

Carlo Giacomini (Sale, 29 November 1840 – Torino, 5 July 1898), was an 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 Giacomini, a band of 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. Provided by Wikipedia