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Ramón y Cajal

American  
[rah-mawn ee kah-hahl] / rɑˈmɔn i kɑˈhɑl /

noun

  1. Santiago 1852–1934, Spanish histologist: Nobel Prize in medicine 1906.


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That has been the practice since the pioneering work of Spanish neuroscientist Santiago Ramón y Cajal more than a century ago.

From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026

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 ● Jan. 16, 2022

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 ● Oct. 6, 2021

A hundred years ago, Spanish biologist Santiago Ramón y Cajal made invaluable contributions to neuroscience by peering through a microscope and drawing the cells he saw in brain tissue, he says.

From Science Magazine ● Oct. 8, 2015

What do you think Ramón y Cajal would be doing today?

From Science Magazine ● Oct. 8, 2015

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