Cajal

British  

/ kaˈxal /

noun

1. Santiago Ramon y. 1852–1934, Spanish histologist, a pioneer of modern neurophysiology: shared the Nobel prize for medicine 1906.

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Example Sentences

Author Benjamin Ehrlich details how revolutionary Cajal’s ideas were and how they changed the way we think about the brain.

From Scientific American

Modern neuroscience began with Santiago Ramón y Cajal’s careful observations of neurons and how they interact.

From Scientific American

Over 130 years ago, pioneering neuroscientist Santiago Ramón y Cajal first suggested that the brain stores information by rearranging the connections, or synapses, between neurons.

From Salon

Cajal provided glimpses of the shapes that distinguish some cell types, but also left a virtually infinite amount of work for future generations of neuroanatomists.

From Scientific American

Pioneering neuroscientist Santiago Ramón y Cajal jump-started the search for a “components catalogue” of the human brain towards the end of the 19th century.

From Scientific American