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**Santiago Ramon y Cajal**


 * Born on May 1, 1852 in Petilla de Aragon, Navarre, Spain
 * Died October 18, 1934 in Madrid, Spain
 * Worked in neuroscience
 * Received a Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine
 * Son of a physician and an anatomy lecturer
 * When he was younger, he had a very bad attitude and wasn't very well behaved causing him to be transferred to multiple different schools
 * He was "imprisoned" at the age of 11 for destroying his neighbor's yard with a home made cannon
 * He took an interest in art, but his father did not approve and he sent him to intern at several different barber and shoe maker stores
 * Hoping to interest Santiago in science, his dad took him to a grave yard to examine bones and human remains
 * Sketching and drawing bones interested him, leading him to want a career in medicine
 * He attended the medical school called the University of Zaragoza
 * Served as a medical officer in the Spanish army
 * Served in Cuba where he contracted tuberculosis and malaria. In order to cure these conditions, he had to attend Panticosa spa-towns in Pyrenees.
 * After returning home, he married a woman named Silveria Fañanás García in 1879; he had four daughters and three sons
 * In 1877, he received his doctorate in medicine in Madrid and became an anatomy professor at the University of Valencia in 1833
 * Accomplished many early works at the universities in which he studied and worked
 * He focused on the pathology of inflammation, the microbiology of cholera, and the structure of Epithelial cells and tissues
 * It was not until he moved to the University of Barcelona in 1887 that he learned Golgi's silver nitrate preparation and turned his attention to the central nervous system.
 * During this period he made extensive studies of neural material covering many species and most major regions of the brain.
 * Made several major contributions to neuroanatomy
 * He discovered the axonal growth cone and experimentally demonstrated that the relationship between nerve cells was not continuous but contiguous
 * This turned into definite evidence for what would later be known as the neuron doctrine; this is now thought to be the foundation of modern neuroscience
 * He provided detailed descriptions of cell types associated with neural structures, and produced excellent depictions of structures and their connectivity
 * He began a more extensive studies of paralysis.
 * He discovered a new cell that would be named after him: the Interstitial Cell of Cajal (ICC)
 * This cell is found interleaved among neurons embedded within the smooth muscle of the gut, serving as the generator of the slow waves of contradictory
 * He also devoted a lot of his time to the discovery of hypnosis which he used to help ladies going into labor.
 * Received the awards of Honorary Doctorates in Memory and a Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine in 1906