Santiago Ramón y Cajal
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.
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- Born in
- Petilla de Aragón
- Educated at
- Faculty of Medicine of the University of ZaragozaUniversidad Central
- Awards
- 🏆 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine🏆 Croonian Medal and Lecture🏆 Helmholtz Medal🏆 Medalla Plus Ultra🏆 Foreign Member of the Royal Society
- Doctoral Advisors
- 🎓 Aureliano Maestre de San Juan
- Doctoral Students
- 📖 Blas Cabrera Felipe
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1852
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Birth1934
Died
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