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Santiago Ramón y Cajal was a Spanish neuroscientist, pathologist and histologist specialized in the central nervous system.
He was born in 1852 and died in 1934.
He was the first Spanish person to win a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Camilo Golgi in 1906.
Ramón y Cajal has discovered cells in the brain, has studied and had interest in the central nervous system that led him to win a Nobel Prize. He discovered that cells in the nervous system are connected, but they are independent living beings.
In the beginning, when he was a child, he had many talents but his father didn’t really approve any of them.
One day his father took him to find human remains for some studies and that’s what led him to pursue medicine.
After he graduated university, he served as a medical officer in the Spanish Army. Then he went to an expedition in Cuba and got sick of malaria and tuberculosis. Thankfully he survived and when he went back to Spain he received his doctorate in medicine.
A few years later he got married with Silveria Fañanás García, with who he had seven daughters and five sons.
During the rest of his life he worked as anatomy professor a few times, as a director of the Anatomical Museum in the University of Zaragoza and as founder of the Laboratory of Biological Investigations, that later changed its name to Cajal Institute.
And finally, the story of his life ended in 1934 with his death.