: Dictyosomes or golgi bodies were first discovered by an Italian neurologist, Camillo Golgi in 1898 in nerve cells of barn owl. He was awarded nobel prize in 1906 for his work. Golgi apparatus is made up of a stack of flat, sac-like structures called cisternae surrounded by vesicles and tubular structures. A single golgi stack in plant cells is called a dictyosome.