Spanish Nobel Laureates - Santiago Ramn y Cajal (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Santiago Ramn y Cajal (1 May 1852 17 October 1934) was a Spanish histologist, physician, pathologist and Nobel laureate. His pioneering investigations of the microscopic structure of the brain were so original and influential that he is considered by many to be the greatest neuroscientist of all time. His skills as an artist allowed him to make hundreds of drawings still used for educational purposes today. The son of Justo Ramn and Antonia Cajal, Ramn y Cajal was born of Aragonese parents in Petilla de Aragn in Navarre, Spain. As a child he was transferred between many different schools because of his poor behavior and anti-authoritarian attitude. An extreme example of his precociousness and rebelliousness is his imprisonment at the age of eleven for destroying the town gate with a homemade cannon. He was an avid painter, artist, and gymnast. He worked for a time as a shoemaker and barber, and was well known for his pugnacious attitude. Ramn y Cajal attended the medical school of Saragossa, Aragon, from which he graduated in 1873. After a competitive examination, he served as a medical officer in the Spanish Army. He took part in an expedition to Cuba in 1874-75, where he contracted malaria and tuberculosis. After returning to Spain he married Silveria Faans Garca in 1879, with whom he had four daughters and three sons. He was appointed as a professor of the Universidad de Valencia in 1881, and in 1883 he received his Doctor of Medicine degree in Madrid. He later held professorships in both Barcelona and Madrid. He was Director of the Zaragoza Museum (1879), Director of the National Institute of Hygiene (1899), and founder of the (1922) (later renamed to the, or Cajal Institute). He died in Madrid in 1934. Ramn y Cajal's early work... More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=256599