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Ramón y Cajal

[ rah-mawn ee kah-hahl ]

noun

  1. San·tia·go [sahn-, tyah, -gaw], 1852–1934, Spanish histologist: Nobel Prize in medicine 1906.


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Hour after hour, year after year, Santiago Ramón y Cajal sat alone in his home laboratory, head bowed and back hunched, his black eyes staring down the barrel of a microscope, the sole object tethering him to the outside world.

Modern neuroscience began with Santiago Ramón y Cajal’s careful observations of neurons and how they interact.

Over 130 years ago, pioneering neuroscientist Santiago Ramón y Cajal first suggested that the brain stores information by rearranging the connections, or synapses, between neurons.

From Salon

Pioneering neuroscientist Santiago Ramón y Cajal jump-started the search for a “components catalogue” of the human brain towards the end of the 19th century.

His next project, El Beso is a plunge into the life and science fiction writings of Santiago Ramón y Cajal, early 20th century Spanish neuroscientist who won the 1906 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine.

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