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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 neuros…
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science · Spanish neuroscientist (1852–1934) · physician · neurologist · chemist · photographer · pathologist · anatomist · politician · essayist · university teacher · researcher · also Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Santiago Ramon y Cajal, Ramon y Cajal, Santiago Ramón y Cajal Agüeras, Cajal
Born 1 May 1852 · Died 17 October 1934 · Q150526
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… as new facts appeared in my preparations, ideas boiled up and jostled each other in my mind. A fever for publication devoured me
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“it was there, in the house of Dr. Simarro … that for the first time I had an opportunity to admire … those famous sections of the brain impregnated by the silver method of the Savant of Pavia.”
“… as new facts appeared in my preparations, ideas boiled up and jostled each other in my mind. A fever for publication devoured me”
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Diario AS: Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Premio Nobel de Medicina: “Todo ser humano puede ser, si se lo propone, escultor de su propio cerebro”
Yahoo Noticias en Español: Santiago Ramón y Cajal: el niño gamberro al que no dejaban dibujar
Psychology Today: Santiago Ramón y Cajal and the Neuron Doctrine
Nature: Santiago Ramón y Cajal: art, politics and neuroscience revolution
Over 75 volunteers collaborated as part of The Cajal Embroidery Project across 6 countries to create 81 intricate, exquisite hand-stitched panels of Ramón y Cajal's images, which were then curated and displayed by Edinbu
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Scientific American: Santiago Ramón y Cajal, the Young Artist Who Grew Up to Invent Neuroscience
UNESCO (the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) recognised Cajal's Legacy (which had been kept in a museum from 1945 to 1989) as a World Heritage treasure
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And ended on January 16, 2016, at the University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain
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Was titled Bridging the Legacy of Santiago Ramón y Cajal, a symposium honoring the father of modern neuroscience
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The National Institutes of Health initiated an ongoing exhibition of original Ramón y Cajal drawings in the John Porter Neuroscience Research Center, located in the NIH central campus in Bethesda, MD, USA
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And is located in Cajal's childhood home, where he lived with his family for ten years
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Sculptures of Severo Ochoa and Santiago Ramón y Cajal created by Víctor Ochoa were unveiled at the Spanish National Research Council central headquarters in Madrid, Spain
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The asteroid 117413 Ramonycajal was named after him by Juan Lacruz
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The first major exhibition of Cajal's scientific drawings opened in Madrid, Spain
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That Ramón y Cajal "was a liberal in politics, an evolutionist in philosophy, an agnostic in religion"
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El Banco De España issued a 50 peseta banknote featuring a portrait of Cajal on the front and the Cajal Monument in Retiro Park on the back
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Died 1934-10-17.
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At the age of 82, continuing to work even on his deathbed
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“Unas veces nos amamos porque nos conocemos, y otras, acaso las más, nos amamos porque nos ignoramos.”
In 1937, in the midst of Spanish civil war, the Gaceta de Melilla uses an old speech of his about the need for an "iron surgeon"
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A monument was unveiled in Madrid, Spain
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Won Medalla Plus Ultra (1926).
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Awarded doctor honoris causa from the University of Paris (1924).
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In the Paraninfo building at the School of Medicine of the University of Zaragoza
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Awarded honorary doctorate from the University of Strasbourg (1923).
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Won Echegaray Medal (1922).
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Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Bordeaux (1922).
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Awarded Honorary Doctorate from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (1922).
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Awarded Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order (1915).
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Career landmark: Senator for Life of Spain (1910–1923).
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Awarded Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1909).
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Career landmark: member of the Senate of Spain (1908–1910).
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Career landmark: vocal of the Junta para Ampliación de Estudios e Investigaciones científicas (1907–1934).
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Career landmark: president (1907–1934).
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Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — in recognition of their work on the structure of the nervous system.
Awarded Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1906).
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Together with the Italian scientist Camillo Golgi "in recognition of their work on the structure of the nervous system"
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Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida painted Cajal's official portrait celebrating his Nobel Prize win
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Published five science-fiction stories called "Vacation Stories" under the pen name "Dr
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Cajal was named an honorary member of the American Association for Anatomy
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Career landmark: Member of the Royal Spanish Academy (1905–1934).
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Won Helmholtz Medal (1904).
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Awarded Grand cross of the Civil Order of Alfonso XII (1902).
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Awarded Grand Cross of the Order of Isabella the Catholic (1901).
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Awarded honorary doctor of Harvard University (1899).
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Became director of the Instituto Nacional de Higiene – translated as National Institute of Hygiene, and in 1922 founder of the Laboratorio de Investigaciones Biológicas – translated as Laboratory of Biological Investi
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At the Spanish Royal Academy of Sciences, he said the following:Esta nobleza, de la que se envanece con tanto mayor motivo cuanto que es su propia obra, consiste en ser ministro del progreso, sacerdote de la verdad y con
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Career landmark: member of the Royal Academy of Exact, Physical and Natural Sciences (1897–1934).
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Career landmark: president (1896–1897).
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Won Croonian Medal and Lecture (1894).
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Stated to the Royal Society of London: "The ability of neurons to grow in an adult and their power to create new connections can explain learning
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“Textura del Sistema Nervioso del Hombre y los Vertebrados”
Ramón y Cajal moved to Barcelona for a professorship
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Career landmark: full professor (1887).
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The 25-year-old Ramón y Cajal joined a Masonic lodge
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Studied at Faculty of Medicine of the University of Zaragoza (1870–1873).
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Aged 21, and then served as a medical officer in the Spanish Army
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Born 1852-05-01.
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