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Santiago Ramón y Cajal
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Santiago Ramón y Cajal

1852 – 1934 · aged 82

Spanish scientist (1852-1934)

Born
1 May 1852 · Petilla de Aragón
Died
17 Oct 1934 · Madrid
Part ofSpain264 BCE – today

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 94 years
  1. 1 May 1852BornBorn in Petilla de Aragón
  2. 1887RoleFull professor
  3. 1894AwardCroonian Medal and Lecture
  4. 1896 – 1897RolePresident
  5. 1897 – 1934RoleMember of the Royal Academy of Exact, Physical and Natural Sciences
  6. 1899AwardHonorary doctor of Harvard University
  7. 1900AwardDearest Son of Zaragoza province
  8. 1901AwardGrand Cross of the Order of Isabella the Catholic
  9. 1902AwardGrand cross of the Civil Order of Alfonso XII
  10. 1904AwardHelmholtz Medal
  11. 1905 – 1934RoleMember of the Royal Spanish Academy
  12. 1906AwardNobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
  13. 1907 – 1934RoleAcademician of the Royal National Academy of Medicine
  14. 1907 – 1934RolePresident
  15. 1907 – 1934RoleVocal of the Junta para Ampliación de Estudios e Investigaciones científicas
  16. 1908 – 1910RoleMember of the Senate of Spain
  17. 1909AwardForeign Member of the Royal Society
  18. 1910 – 1923RoleSenator for Life of Spain
  19. 1915AwardPour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order
  20. 1922AwardEchegaray Medal
  21. 1922AwardHonorary doctor of the University of Bordeaux
  22. 1922AwardHonorary Doctorate from the National Autonomous University of Mexico
  23. 17 Oct 1934DiedDied in Madrid

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1852 – 1934).

  1. 1853 – 1856Crimean War
  2. 1857 – 1858Indian Rebellion of 1857
  3. 1870 – 1871Franco-Prussian War
  4. 18961896 Summer Olympics
  5. 1898Spanish–American War
  6. 1904 – 1905Russo-Japanese War
  7. 1914 – 1918World War I
  8. 1915 – 1923Armenian genocide
  9. 1917Balfour Declaration
  10. 1917February Revolution
  11. 1917October Revolution
  12. 1917 – 1922Russian Civil War
  13. 1919 – 1920Paris Peace Conference
  14. 1920Treaty of Versailles
  15. 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
  16. 19341934 FIFA World Cup

Biography

Santiago Ramón y Cajal (Spanish: [sanˈtjaɣo raˈmon i kaˈxal]; 1 May 1852 – 17 October 1934) was a Spanish neuroscientist, pathologist, and histologist specialising 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.

Hundreds of his drawings illustrating the arborization (tree-like growth) of brain cells are still in use, since the mid-20th century, for educational and training purposes.

Text from the Wikipedia article Santiago Ramón y Cajal, CC BY-SA 4.0

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