Sanford L. Palay

Research.com Recognitions

• 1991 - Karl Spencer Lashley Award, The American Philosophical Society For pioneering the study of the nervous system on the ultrastructural level, for revolutionizing understanding, and especially for his seminal contribution - characterization of the chemical synapse in the central nervous system
• 1990 - Ralph W. Gerard Prize in Neuroscience, Society for Neuroscience
• 1981 - Distinguished Scientist Award, Mineralogical Society of America
• 1977 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
• 1971 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
• 1953 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Best Publications

• Cerebellar Cortex: Cytology and Organization

  Sanford L. Palay;Victoria Chan-Palay

  3122
  Citations

• The Fine Structure of the Nervous System: Neurons and Their Supporting Cells

  Alan Peters;Sanford L. Palay;Henry deF Webster

  2065
  Citations

• The fine structure of the nervous system: The neurons and supporting cells

  Alan Peters;Sanford L Palay;Henry de F Webster

  1844
  Citations

• The fine structure of neurons.

  Sanford L. Palay;George E. Palade

  1114
  Citations

• SYNAPSES IN THE CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM

  Sanford L. Palay

  803
  Citations

• Fixation of neural tissues for electron microscopy by perfusion with solutions of osmium tetroxide.

  Sanford L. Palay;S. M. McGee-Russell;Spencer Gordon;Mary A. Grillo

  740
  Citations

• Serotonin and substance P coexist in neurons of the rat's central nervous system

  Victoria Chan-Palay;Gösta Jonsson;Sanford L. Palay

  626
  Citations

• THE FINE STRUCTURE OF EPENDYMA IN THE BRAIN OF THE RAT

  M. W. Brightman;S. L. Palay

  582
  Citations

• THE AXON HILLOCK AND THE INITIAL SEGMENT

  Sanford L. Palay;Constantino Sotelo;Alan Peters;Paula M. Orkand

  545
  Citations

• The morphology of synapses in the central nervous system.

  Palay Sl

  330
  Citations

• THE FINE STRUCTURE OF THE LATERAL VESTIBULAR NUCLEUS IN THE RAT I. Neurons and Neuroglial Cells

  Constantino Sotelo;Sanford L. Palay

  320
  Citations

• The fine structure of the nervous system : the cells and their processes

  Alan Peters;Sanford L. Palay;Henry deF Webster

  319
  Citations

• The fine structure of secretory neurons in the preoptic nucleus of the goldfish (Carassius auratus)

  Sanford L. Palay

  315
  Citations

• Altered axons and axon terminals in the lateral vestibular nucleus of the rat. Possible example of axonal remodeling.

  Sotelo C;Palay Sl

  303
  Citations

• Ultrastructural identification of substance P cells and their processes in rat sensory ganglia and their terminals in the spinal cord by immunocytochemistry

  Victoria Chan-Palay;Sanford L. Palay

  294
  Citations

• The nucleus paragigantocellularis lateralis in the rat. Demonstration of afferents by the retrograde transport of horseradish peroxidase.

  Joseph A. Andrezik;Victoria Chan-Palay;Sanford L. Palay

  290
  Citations

• The morphology of synapses.

  Alan Peters;Sanford L. Palay

  289
  Citations

• Ultrastructure of the small neurons in the superior cervical ganglion.

  T.H. Williams;S.L. Palay

  265
  Citations

• Chemical heterogeneity in cerebellar Purkinje cells: existence and coexistence of glutamic acid decarboxylase-like and motilin-like immunoreactivities.

  Victoria Chan-Palay;Gajanan Nilaver;Sanford L. Palay;Margery C. Beinfeld

  251
  Citations

• fine structure of the nervous system

  Alan Peters;Sanford L. Palay;Henry deF. Webster

  202
  Citations

• Cytochemical methods in neuroanatomy

  Victoria Chan-Palay;Sanford L. Palay

  138
  Citations