Santiago Ramón y Cajal was a Spanish neuroscientist, pathologist, and histologist specializing 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 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.
Ramón y Cajal in 1899
Ramón y Cajal, captain in Ten Years' War, Cuba, 1874
Self-portrait as a student, 1870s
Ramón y Cajal in his laboratory
A neuroscientist is a scientist who has specialised knowledge in neuroscience, a branch of biology that deals with the physiology, biochemistry, psychology, anatomy and molecular biology of neurons, neural circuits, and glial cells and especially their behavioral, biological, and psychological aspect in health and disease.
Camillo Golgi (1843–1926), Italian physician, neuroscientist, and namesake of the Golgi apparatus
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