Santiago Ramón y Cajal

1852 - 1934

photo credits: Wikimedia Commons

country of citizenship: Spain

native language: Aragonese Spanish

languages spoken, written or signed: Spanish

educated at: Faculty of Medicine of the University of Zaragoza, Universidad Central

occupation: physician, neurologist, chemist, professor, photographer, pathologist, anatomist, politician, essayist

award received: Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order, Helmholtz Medal, Grand Cross of the Order of Isabella the Catholic, honorary doctorate from the University of Cambridge, Grand cross of the Civil Order of Alfonso XII, Medalla Plus Ultra, Croonian Lecture, honorary doctor of Harvard University, Foreign Member of the Royal Society, Honorary Doctorate from the National Autonomous University of Mexico, Dearest Son of Zaragoza province, Echegaray Medal

position held: president, member of the Senate of Spain, Vocal of the Junta para Ampliación de Estudios e Investigaciones científicas, full professor

student of: Florencio Ballarín Causada

Santiago Ramón y Cajal (Spanish: [sanˈtjaɣo raˈmon i kaˈxal]; 1 May 1852 – 17 October 1934) was a Spanish neuroscientist, pathologist, and histologist specializing 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 person of Spanish origin to win a scientific Nobel Prize. His original investigations of the microscopic structure of the brain made him a pioneer of modern neuroscience. Hundreds of his drawings illustrating the arborizations ("tree growing") of brain cells are still in use, since the mid-20th century, for educational and training purposes. Source: Wikipedia (en)