Santiago ramon y cajal wikipedia español

This name uses Spanish naming customs; the first or paternalfamily name is Ramón and the second or maternalfamily name is Cajal.

Santiago Ramón y Cajal 1 May 1852 – 18 October 1934) was a Spanishdoctor.^[1] He shared the 1906 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Camillo Golgi for their work on the anatomy of the nervous system.^[2]

Ramón y Cajal worked on thin slices of brain tissue which were laid on microscope slides and stained with silver. The stain was invented by Golgi, who shared the Nobel Prize with him.

Ramón y Cajal's investigations of the microscopic structure of the brain were original: he is considered by many to be the father of modern neuroscience. He was skilled at drawing, and hundreds of his illustrations of brain cells are still used for educational purposes today.^[3]

• Drawing of the neural circuitry of the rodent hippocampus

• Drawing of the cells of the chick cerebellum

• Drawing

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• 1928-02-19, El solen, Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Sancha.jpg 595 × 951; 236 KB
  

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  Santiago Ramón y Cajal

  Spanish neuroscientist (1852–1934)

  In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Ramón and the second or maternal family name is Cajal.

  Santiago Ramón y Cajal
  Ramón y Cajal in 1899
  Born	(1852-05-01)1 May 1852 Petilla de Aragón, Spain
  Died	17 October 1934(1934-10-17) (aged 82) Madrid, Spain
  Nationality	Spanish
  Education	University of Zaragoza
  Known for	Fathering modern neuroscience Discovery of the neuron Cajal body, Cajal–Retzius cell, Interstitial cell of Cajal, Neuron doctrine, Growth cone, Dendritic spine, Long-term potentiation, Mossy fiber, Neurotrophic theory, Axo-axonic synapse, Pioneer axon, Pyramidal cell, Radial glial cell, Retinal ganglion cell, Trisynaptic circuit, Visual map theory
  Awards	Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1906)
  Scientific career
  Fields	Neuroscience Pathology Histology
  Institutions	University of Valencia Complutense University of Madrid Un