Santiago Ramón y Cajal
Santiago Ramón y Cajal
Born	1 May 1852 Petilla de Aragón, Spain
Died	October 18, 1934 Madrid, Spain
Nationality	Spanish
Alma mater	University of Saragossa
Known for	Anatomy of the brain
Awards	Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1906)
Scientific career
Fields	Neuroscience
Institutions	Madrid University, Madrid, Spain

Santiago Ramón y Cajal 1 May 1852 – 18 October 1934) was a Spanish doctor.^[1] He shared the 1906 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Camillo Golgi for their work on the anatomy of the nervous system.^[2]

Ramón y Cajal worked on thin slices of brain tissue which were laid on microscope slides and stained with silver. The stain was invented by Golgi, who shared the Nobel Prize with him.

Ramón y Cajal's investigations of the microscopic structure of the brain were original: he is considered by many to be the father of modern neuroscience. He was skilled at drawing, and hundreds of his illustrations of brain cells are still used for educational purposes today.^[3]

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  Drawing of the neural circuitry of the rodent hippocampus
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  Drawing of the cells of the chick cerebellum
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  Drawing of a section through the optic tectum of a sparrow
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  From Structure of the mammalian retina Madrid, 1900.
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  Drawing of Purkinje cells (A) and granule cells (B) from pigeon cerebellum

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