Santiago Ramón y Cajal

Santiago Ramón y Cajal (Spanish: [sanˈtjaɣo raˈmon i kaˈxal]; 1 May 1852 – 17 October 1934) was a Spanish neuroscientist, pathologist, and histologist specialising in neuroanatomy, and the central nervous system. He and Camillo Golgi received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1906. Ramón y Cajal was the first Spaniard to win a scientific Nobel Prize. His original investigations of the microscopic structure of the brain made him a pioneer of modern neuroscience.

Hundreds of his drawings illustrating the arborization (tree-like growth) of brain cells are still in use, since the mid-20th century, for educational and training purposes.

Awards: Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order, Helmholtz Medal, Grand Cross of the Order of Isabella the Catholic, honorary doctorate from the University of Cambridge, Grand cross of the Civil Order of Alfonso XII, Medalla Plus Ultra, Croonian Medal and Lecture, honorary doctor of Harvard University, Foreign Member of the Royal Society Education: Faculty of Medicine of the University of Zaragoza, Universidad Central, Colegio Escuelas Pías of Jaca

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