Santiago Ramón y Cajal - Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — 1906
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Santiago Ramón y Cajal

Prize
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — 1906
in recognition of their work on the structure of the nervous system
Together with: Camillo Golgi
Citizenship
SpainSpain
Languages
Spanish
date of birth
5/1/1852
place of birth
Petilla de Aragón
date of death
10/17/1934
place of death
Madrid
Lived
82 years

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occupation
  • anatomist
  • essayist
  • university teacher
  • researcher
  • histologist
  • photographer
  • pathologist
  • physician
  • chemist
  • neurologist
  • politician
field of work
  • Lippmann plate
  • histology
educated at
  • Faculty of Medicine of the University of Zaragoza
    • academic major: medicine
    • start time: 1870
    • end time: 1873
    • academic thesis: Patogenia de la inflamación: discurso para los ejercicios del grado de Doctor de Santiago Ramón y Cajal
    • doctoral advisor: Aureliano Maestre de San Juan
  • Universidad Central
  • Colegio Escuelas Pías of Jaca
employer
  • Universidad Central
    • start time: 1892
  • University of Barcelona
    • start time: 1887
    • end time: 1892
  • University of Valencia
    • start time: 1884
    • end time: 1887
position held
  • president
    • start time: December 1896
    • end time: December 1897
  • president
    • start time: 1907
    • end time: 1934
  • Member of the Royal Spanish Academy
    • start time: 6/21/1905
    • end time: 10/17/1934
  • academician of the Royal National Academy of Medicine
    • start time: 6/30/1907
    • end time: 10/17/1934
  • Member of the Royal Academy of Exact, Physical and Natural Sciences
    • start time: 12/5/1897
    • end time: 10/17/1934
  • member of the Senate of Spain
    • start time: 12/6/1908
    • end time: 2/14/1910
  • full professor
    • start time: 1887
  • Senator for Life of Spain
    • start time: 2/14/1910
    • end time: 11/13/1923
  • vocal of the Junta para Ampliación de Estudios e Investigaciones científicas
    • start time: 1907
    • end time: 1934
member of
  • Royal Spanish Academy
  • Royal Society of London
  • French Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 1916
  • Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
  • Royal National Academy of Medicine
  • Royal National Academy of Medicine
    • start time: 1907
    • end time: 1934
  • Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • Hungarian Academy of Sciences
  • National Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 1920
  • Academy of Sciences of Turin
    • start time: 5/15/1910
  • Valencian institute of medicine
  • Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
    • start time: 8/16/1906
  • Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony
  • Royal Academy of Exact, Physical and Natural Sciences
    • start time: 12/5/1897
    • end time: 10/17/1934
  • American Philosophical Society
    • start time: 1932
  • Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities
  • Royal Society of Arts and Sciences in Gothenburg
  • Romanian Academy
  • Royal Academy of Sciences and Arts of Barcelona
  • Royal Academy of Medicine of Catalonia
  • Royal Spanish Society of Natural History
doctoral student
  • Blas Cabrera Felipe
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