Where was Santiago Ramón y Cajal born?
Childhood & Early Life Santiago Ramón y Cajal was born on May 1, 1852, at Petilla de Aragón in Northeast Spain. His father was a village surgeon and later worked as Professor of Dissection at the University of Zaragoza. He was apprenticed to a shoemaker and a barber in order to tame his wild nature.
What did Ramón y Cajal want to be?
Ramón y Cajal wanted to be an artist and he was very strong-willed. He returned to high school in the town of Huesca. In the summer of 1868, his anatomist father took the 16 year-old boy to graveyards where the bones of ancient burials had come to the surface.
Where did Santiago Ramón y Cajal create Víctor Ochoa?
In 2007, sculptures of Severo Ochoa y Santiago Ramón y Cajal created Víctor Ochoa were unveiled at the Spain’s CESIC (university research centre), Madrid, Spain. Santiago Ramón y Cajal Museum, Ayerbe, Huesca, Spain opened in 2013 and is located in Cajal’s childhood home, where he lived with his family for ten years.
What did Ramón y Cajal discover about Bird Brains?
Within a year Ramón y Cajal published a groundbreaking result. He discovered that the nervous system in bird brains is made up of individual cells touching one another – he could show this clearly, because of the high proportion of cells he was able to stain. This discovery, in 1888, made it the peak year of his work, according to Ramón y Cajal.