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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Santiago Ramón y Cajal was born in Spain on 1 May 1852. He trained as a pathologist and histologist, then turned his microscope to the structure of the nervous system at a time when no one understood how brain cells actually connected. Using careful observation and an artist's eye, he mapped the arborization — the tree-like branching — of individual neurons, proving they were distinct units rather than a fused mesh. In 1906 he shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Camillo Golgi, becoming the first Spaniard to win a scientific Nobel. He died on 17 October 1934, leaving behind hundreds of drawings that remain standard teaching tools in neuroscience more than a century later.