BIOLOGIST

Santiago Ramón y Cajal

1852 - 1934

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Santiago Ramón y Cajal (Spanish: [sanˈtjaɣo raˈmon i kaˈxal]; 1 May 1852 – 17 October 1934) was a Spanish neuroscientist, pathologist, and histologist specializing in neuroanatomy and the central nervous system. He and Camillo Golgi received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1906. Ramón y Cajal was the first Spaniard to win a scientific Nobel Prize. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Santiago Ramón y Cajal has received more than 934,369 page views. His biography is available in 80 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 79 in 2019). Santiago Ramón y Cajal is the 31st most popular biologist (down from 27th in 2019), the 108th most popular biography from Spain (down from 95th in 2019) and the most popular Spanish Biologist.

Santiago Ramón y Cajal is most famous for his work on neurons. He was the first person to show that the neuron is the basic unit of the nervous system.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Santiago Ramón y Cajal ranks 31 out of 1,097. Before him are Jules Bordet, Rachel Carson, Yoshinori Ohsumi, Katherine Oppenheimer, Theodor Schwann, and Ada Yonath. After him are Barbara McClintock, Albrecht Kossel, Charles Richet, Matthias Jakob Schleiden, Harald zur Hausen, and Dian Fossey.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1852, Santiago Ramón y Cajal ranks 10. Before him are Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, Gojong of Korea, William Ramsay, Emil Fischer, Albert A. Michelson, and Henri Moissan. After him are Joseph Joffre, Francisco Tárrega, Charles Taze Russell, William IV, Grand Duke of Luxembourg, Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza, and Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf. Among people deceased in 1934, Santiago Ramón y Cajal ranks 14. Before him are Raymond Poincaré, Kurt von Schleicher, Alexander I of Yugoslavia, Sergey Kirov, Nestor Makhno, and Engelbert Dollfuss. After him are Gregor Strasser, Emma of Waldeck and Pyrmont, Tōgō Heihachirō, John Dillinger, Edmond James de Rothschild, and Augusto César Sandino.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, Santiago Ramón y Cajal ranks 108 out of 3,355. Before him are Solomon ibn Gabirol (1021), Cristóbal Balenciaga (1895), Paco Rabanne (1934), Louis I of Spain (1707), Pelagius of Asturias (685), and Manuel de Falla (1876). After him are Isabella of Aragon, Queen of Portugal (1470), Seneca the Elder (-54), Antipope Benedict XIII (1328), Joaquín Rodrigo (1901), Isabella Clara Eugenia (1566), and Carlos, Prince of Asturias (1545).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Spain

Among biologists born in Spain, Santiago Ramón y Cajal ranks 1. After him are Ibn al-Baitar (1197), Antonio José Cavanilles (1745), Francisco J. Ayala (1934), Francisco Hernández de Toledo (1515), Abu al-Abbas al-Nabati (1166), Ángel Cabrera (1879), Hipólito Ruiz López (1754), Francisco Manuel Blanco (1778), and José Antonio Pavón Jiménez (1754).

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