Histology
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Histology, also known as microscopic anatomy, microanatomy or histoanatomy, is the branch of biology that studies the microscopic anatomy of biological tissues. Histology is the microscopic counterpar
Histologic specimen being placed on the stage of an optical microscope
Human lung tissue stained with hematoxylin and eosin as seen under a microscope
Histologic section of a plant stem (Alliaria petiolata)
Histologic section of a fossilized invertebrate. Ordovician bryozoan.
Santiago Ramón y Cajal
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Santiago Ramón y Cajal was a Spanish neuroscientist, pathologist, and histologist specialising in neuroanatomy, and the central nervous system. He and Camillo Golgi received the Nobel Prize in Physiol
Histology
…he had for some years embedded his specimens in paraffin. The 1906 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to histologists Camillo Golgi and Santiago Ramon y Cajal. They had conflicting interpretations of the neural structure of the brain based on differing interpretations of the same images. Ramón y Cajal won the…
Ramón y Cajal in 1899.
Ramón y Cajal, captain in the Ten Years' War, Cuba, 1874
Self-portrait as a student, 1870s
J. Harley Williams called Cajal the “Don Quixote of the microscope”.