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Santiago Ramón y Cajal

Nobel Prize-winning scientist considered the father of modern neuroscience

Did you know?As a young man, he was a dedicated bodybuilder and once spent time in jail for his rebellious behaviour at school.

Santiago Ramón y Cajal (Spanish:; 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.

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