Santiago Ramon Y Cajal was born in 1852 in Navarre, Spain. He planned on being an artist and had a reputation as a trouble maker. Not the being you’d expect for a Nobel Prize winner.
His father, an anatomy teacher, and a doctor felt he was meant for bigger things. In an attempt to steer Cajal in another career trajectory, he would take his son to cemeteries in search of bones to draw. Eventually, Cajal was inspired and enrolled in medical school at the University of Zaragoza. He went on to study and Barcelona University and at the University of Madrid. At school, Cajal developed an interest in histology; the study of microscopic structures of tissue.
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Cajal began hearing about another researcher, Camillo Golgi, who had many interesting theories. Golgi was investigating the structure of the nervous system. Golgi believed the reticular theory was correct. /.this stated that the nervous system was a densely connected net. Cajal thought the Neuron theory was the best: the nervous system was made up o individual cells called neurons.
Golgi has invented a method of staining tissue so that he revealed its structure and details. Cajal used Golgi’s staining method and made beautiful and accurate drawings of what he saw under the microscope. He studied slices of the cerebellum, spinal cord, and cerebrum. He looked at human and animal tissues. These drawings helped to prove his theory - that the nervous system was made up of separate cells the communicated with each other.
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