The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1906
Awarded on: 1906-10-25
"in recognition of their work on the structure of the nervous system"
Affiliations:
- Madrid University – Madrid, Spain
Santiago Ramón y Cajal
Born: 1852-05-01 in Petilla de Aragón, Spain
Gender: male
Field: Spanish neuroscientist (1852–1934)
Biography
Santiago Ramón y Cajal 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 Spaniard to win a scientific Nobel Prize. His original investigations of the microscopic structure of the brain made him a pioneer of modern neuroscience.