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Santiago Ramón y Cajal, the Father of Neuroscience

Wandering through the streets of Barcelona, you’re likely to come across the name Ramón y Cajal: there’s a school, a street, and more. You’ll also find tributes to him in cities around Spain, including Valencia, Zargoza, Madrid and Granada. He spent time in several cities around the country in pursuit of his scientific vision, and each one of these cities likes to claim him as a favorite son.

So, Who Was He? A Politician? A Writer?

At Carrer del Notariat 7, there’s a plaque in Catalan that says: “In this house, S. Ramón y Cajal (1852-1934) in 1888 discovered the theory of the neuron. The city remembers him on the fiftieth anniversary of his death.” Not a politician, not a writer: Santiago Ramón y Cajal was a scientific genius commonly referred to as the father of neuroscience, or as one journalist put it, the “cartographer of the brain.”

Early Life

He was born in the small town of Petilla de Aragón (Navarra) on May 1, 1852. Ramón y Cajal’s father, Justo Ramón Casasús, was a res

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Scientist of the Day - Santiago Ramón y Cajal

Glial cells of the spinal cord of a mouse, ink and pencil on paper, drawing by Santiago Ramón y Cajal, 1899, Cajal Institute (CSIC), Madrid (Wikimedia commons)

Santiago Ramón y Cajal, a Spanish pathologist and pioneer of neuroanatomy, died Oct. 18, 1934, at the age of 82. Born in Navarre in Spain, he demonstrated unusual artistic ability as a child, and also a rebellious nature that took him from school to school. He made some drawings of bones for his father, who was a teacher of anatomy, which aroused Ramón’s interest in medicine. He enrolled in medical school in Zaragoza, received his doctorate of medicine in Madrid, then worked in Zaragoza and Valencia. He moved to the University of Barcelona in 1887, and while teaching there, he learned that Camillo Golgi, an Italian pathologist, had invented a way to stain cells with a silver chromate solution, which had the unexpected effect of randomly staining only certain cells, making them stand out against a background of unstained cells.

Axon of Purkinje neurons in th

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Santiago Ramón y Cajal

We carry out a brief review of Santiago Ramón y Cajal's life. Cajal was born on 1 May 1852 in Petilla de Aragón (Spain) and died on 17 October 1934 in Madrid. He graduated in medicine at the University of Saragossa in 1873 and successively occupied the chair of Anatomy in Valencia (1884-1887), and Histology and Pathology in Barcelona (1888-1891) and Madrid (1892-1922). Starting from the modified Golgi staining method applied to embrions or young animals, Cajal published a monumental histology of the nervous system creating the revolutionary concept of the neuron doctrine and dynamic polarization of the neuron. He also introduced new staining methods including reduced silver nitrate, formol-urano and sublimate gold. He then procceded to study the process of degeneration and regeneration of the nervous system and the fine texture of the neuron and neuroglia. Together with Golgi, Cajal was awarded the Nobel prize for Physiology and Medicine in 1906. Don Santiago was also an excellent teacher, painter, photographer and writer. He is the greatest of all Spani