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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 person of Spanish origin 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 865,822 page views. His biography is available in 79 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 77 in 2019). Santiago Ramón y Cajal is the 27th most popular biologist (up from 50th in 2019), the 95th most popular biography from Spain (up from 111th 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 27 out of 841. Before him are Thomas Henry Huxley, Maria Sibylla Merian, Rachel Carson, Élie Metchnikoff, Trofim Lysenko, and Barbara McClintock. After him are Conrad Gessner, Jules Bordet, Dian Fossey, Charles Richet, Theodor Schwann, and Yoshinori Ohsumi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1852, Santiago Ramón y Cajal ranks 9. Before him are Emperor Meiji, Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, Emil Fischer, Henri Moissan, Gojong of Korea, and Albert A. Michelson. After him are William Ramsay, Francisco Tárrega, Joseph Joffre, Charles Taze Russell, William IV, Grand Duke of Luxembourg, and Alice Liddell. Among people deceased in 1934, Santiago Ramón y Cajal ranks 14. Before him are Kurt von Schleicher, John Dillinger, Sergey Kirov, Raymond Poincaré, Nestor Makhno, and Alexander I of Yugoslavia. After him are Gregor Strasser, Engelbert Dollfuss, Tōgō Heihachirō, Gustav Holst, Emma of Waldeck and Pyrmont, and Edmond James de Rothschild.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, Santiago Ramón y Cajal ranks 95 out of 2,932. Before him are Peter III of Aragon (1239), Juan Gris (1887), Francisco de Orellana (1511), Anna of Austria, Queen of Spain (1549), Joaquín Rodrigo (1901), and Dolores Ibárruri (1895). After him are Roderic (688), Luis Aragonés (1938), Catherine of Austria, Queen of Portugal (1507), Francisco Tárrega (1852), Pablo Casals (1876), and Antonio Banderas (1960).

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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 Hernández de Toledo (1515), Francisco J. Ayala (1934), Francisco Manuel Blanco (1778), Hipólito Ruiz López (1754), Ángel Cabrera (1879), and José Antonio Pavón Jiménez (1754).

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