Santiago Ramón y Cajal

1 May 1852 – 17 October 1934

Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852-1934) was a Spanish neuroscientist and histologist widely regarded as the father of modern neuroscience. His investigations of the microscopic structure of the brain established the neuron doctrine, and he shared the 1906 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Camillo Golgi.

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Born in Petilla de Aragón, Spain
1 May 1852

Santiago Ramón y Cajal was born in the small Navarrese village of Petilla de Aragón, the son of an anatomy teacher.

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Graduated in medicine from the University of Zaragoza
1873

Cajal completed his medical studies at Zaragoza, where his father taught applied anatomy.

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Served as an army medical officer in Cuba
1874 – 1875

Cajal served as a physician in the Spanish Army during the Ten Years' War in Cuba, where he contracted malaria and tuberculosis.

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Married Silveria Fañanás García
1879

Cajal married Silveria Fañanás, with whom he had seven children.

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Appointed professor of anatomy at the University of Valencia
1883

Cajal won the chair of descriptive anatomy at Valencia, beginning his career as a university professor.

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Moved to the University of Barcelona and began landmark studies of the nervous system
1887

As professor of histology in Barcelona, Cajal refined the Golgi stain and produced evidence that the nervous system is made up of individual neurons.

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Appointed professor of histology and pathological anatomy at Madrid
1892

Cajal took up the chair at the Universidad Central de Madrid, where he worked for the rest of his career.

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Published Textura del Sistema Nervioso del Hombre y de los Vertebrados
1899 – 1904

Cajal published his monumental treatise on the structure of the nervous system of humans and vertebrates.

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Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
10 December 1906

Cajal shared the Nobel Prize with Camillo Golgi in recognition of their work on the structure of the nervous system.

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Died in Madrid
17 October 1934

Cajal died in Madrid at the age of 82, still working on scientific publications in his final years.

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