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1852 – 1934Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852-1934)Died 17 October 1934, aged 82Spanish neuroscientist who showed that the nervous system is made up of individual neurons. He shared the 1906 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Camillo Golgi.
1852 – 1934Santiago Ramón y CajalFather of NeuroscienceNobel Prize winner who discovered the individual structure of neurons.