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
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”.
Camillo Golgi was an Italian biologist and pathologist who was awarded the 1906 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his works on the central nervous system. He studied medicine at the University
Santiago Ramón y Cajal
…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…
Golgi in a 1903 publication
Drawing by Camillo Golgi of a hippocampus stained with the silver nitrate method
Marble statue of Golgi at the University of Pavia
Camillo Golgi's house in Pavia