Spain
Santiago Ramón y Cajal
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Santiago Ramón y Cajal
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Ramón y Cajal in 1899
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| Born | 1 May 1852 |
| Died | 17 October 1934 (aged 82)
Madrid, Spain
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| Nationality | Spanish |
| Education | University of Zaragoza |
| Known for | Fathering modern neuroscience Discovery of the neuron Cajal body, Cajal–Retzius cell, Interstitial cell of Cajal, Neuron doctrine, Growth cone, Dendritic spine, Long-term potentiation, Mossy fiber, Neurotrophic theory, Axo-axonic synapse, Pioneer axon, Pyramidal cell, Radial glial cell, Retinal ganglion cell, Trisynaptic circuit, Visual map theory |
| Awards | Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1906) |
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| Fields | Neuroscience Pathology Histology |
| Institutions | University of Valencia Complutense University of Madrid University of Barcelona |
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Santiago Ramón y Cajal (Spanish: [sanˈtjaɣo raˈmon i kaˈxal]; 1 May 1852 – 17 October 1934)[1][2] was a Spanish neuroscientist, pathologist, and histologistspecializing in neuroanatomy and the central nervous system. He and Camillo Golgireceived the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1906.[3] Ramón y Cajal was the first person of Spanish origin 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 arborizations (“tree growing”) of brain cells are still in use, since the mid-20th century, for educational and training purposes.[4]
Biography[edit]
Santiago Ramón y Cajal was born on the 1st of May 1852 in the town of Petilla de Aragón, Navarre, Spain.[1] As a child he was transferred many times from one school to another because of behavior that was declared poor, rebellious, and showing an anti-authoritarian attitude. An extreme example of his precociousness and rebelliousness at the age of eleven is his 1863 imprisonment for destroying his neighbor’s yard gate with a homemade cannon.[5] He was a keen painter
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