Page 1 Ramón y Cajal, Nobel Prize in Medicine

Page 2 Ramón y Cajal, Nobel Prize in Medicine Santiago Ramón y Cajal was born in Petilla, Aragón, on 1st May 1852 and died on 17th October He was a Spanish doctor, specialized in histology and anatomopatholgy. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1906 for his discovery of the mechanism that rules morphology and connective processes of nerve cells. This constituted a new and revolutionary theory which came to be known as «the Neuron Doctrine», based on the fact that the cerebral tissue is composed of individual cells.

Page 3 Ramón y Cajal, Nobel Prize in Medicine Influenced by his father, who was a surgeon, he developed a deep interest in Medicine and finally received his degree in this discipline in After getting the post in the Military Health Services, he was sent to Cuba where he served as a medical officer for the colonial troops. It was there that he contracted the malaria and dysentery.

Page 4 At midnight on 6th October 1906, Santiago Ramón y Cajal received a telegram informing him that he had been awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine ex aequo with Camilo Golgi. However, he thought his pupils were playing a joke on him and went back to bed. It was next morning, when he read the newspaper, that he came to believe the good news. Ramón y Cajal, Nobel Prize in Medicine

Page 5 Ramón y Cajal, Nobel Prize in Medicine