Santiago Ramón y Cajal
1852 – 1934 · Spain · Medicine, Biology
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1906
Founded neuroscience by drawing the neuron doctrine.
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Who shaped Santiago Ramón y Cajal, and who they shaped
Inherited from2
- Camillo Golgi
1843 – 1926 · Medicine, Biology
Cajal used Golgi's stain to prove Golgi wrong: neurons are discrete cells.
- Charles Darwin
1809 – 1882 · Biology
Evolutionary reasoning underlies Cajal's comparative argument for the neuron.
Passed the work to2
- Alan Hodgkin & Andrew Huxley
1914 – 1998 · Medicine, Biology
The neuron doctrine is the anatomy their membrane equations gave a physiology.
- Rita Levi-Montalcini
1909 – 2012 · Medicine, Biology
Levi-Montalcini began in Cajal's tradition of silver-stained developmental neuroanatomy.
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- 1.Nobel Prize record — Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1906
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