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BIOGRAPHY OF SANTIAGO RAMÓN Y CAJAL

BIOGRAPHY OF SANTIAGO RAMÓN Y CAJAL. By Carmen López - 2º B. HIS CHILDHOOD AND YOUTH. He was born 1st May of 1852 in Navarra. He is the son of Justo Ramón Casasús y Antonia Cajal. He moved around different towns in Aragon with his father, who was a surgeon.

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BIOGRAPHY OF SANTIAGO RAMÓN Y CAJAL

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  1. BIOGRAPHY OF SANTIAGO RAMÓN Y CAJAL By Carmen López - 2º B

  2. HIS CHILDHOOD AND YOUTH • He was born 1st May of 1852 in Navarra. He is the son of Justo Ramón Casasús y Antonia Cajal.

  3. He moved around different towns in Aragon with his father, who was a surgeon. • He was a little naughty and rebel but he was very intelligent. • He studied primary education in a monks school and after that he studied at Huesca’s High School.

  4. HIS PROJECTS • Since he was a boy he liked arts, especially drawing, but his father wanted his son to be like him, a surgeon. • He made a drawing of his discovery of the neurons.

  5. He graduated in medicine, in June of 1863. • He was a doctor in the battle of Cuba between (1873-1875). • July 19th he married Silveria Fañanás García.

  6. And he had seven children: Santiago, Felina, Pabla Vicenta, Enriqueta, Jorge, Pilar and Luis Ramón y Cajal Fañanás, but Santiago and Enriqueta died before him.

  7. Ramón y Cajal died in 1934 when he was 82 years old and his wife died in 1930. • In Pamplona there is a statue on his honour near the hospital.

  8. PRIZES AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS • In 1906 he won a Nobel Price in Physiology and Medicine with an Italian doctor called Camillo Golgi. • The 150 anniversary of his birth was celebrated in Aragon in 2002. • There are several hospitals named after him on his honour.

  9. CARMEN LÓPEZ RÓDENAS

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