Santiago Ramón y Cajal
Spanish scientist (1852-1934)
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Spanish neuroscientist who mapped the brain's microscopic architecture and shared the 1906 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine—Spain's first scientific Nobel winner. His work staring down microscopes essentially founded modern neuroscience.
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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 Physiology or Medicine in 1906. Ramón y Cajal was the first Spaniard to win a scientific Nobel Prize. His original investigations of the microscopic structure of the brain made him a pioneer of modern neuroscience.
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