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
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”.
Neuron doctrine
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The neuron doctrine is the concept that the nervous system is made up of discrete individual cells, a discovery due to decisive neuro-anatomical work of Santiago Ramón y Cajal and later presented by,
Santiago Ramón y Cajal
…reticular theory, but rather contiguous; there were gaps between neurons. This provided definitive evidence for what Heinrich Waldeyer would name "neuron theory", now widely considered the foundation of modern neuroscience. He is also considered by some to be the first "neuroscientist" since in 1894 he stated…
Ramón y Cajal's drawing of the cells of the chick cerebellum, from Estructura de los centros nerviosos de las aves, Madrid, 1905