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Authorised form of name	Ramon y Cajal; Santiago (1852 - 1934)
Dates	1852 - 1934
Nationality	Spanish
Place of birth	Petilla de Aragon, Spain
Date of birth	01 May 1852
Place of death	Madrid, Spain
Date of death	17/10/1934
Research field	Neuroanatomy
Research field	Neurohistology
Activity	Career: Apprentice to a barber, then to a cobbler Medals and prizes: Nobel Prize (Physiology or Medicine) 1906
Membership category	Foreign Member
Date of election	25/03/1909
RSActivity	Lectures: Croonian 1894
Source	Sources: Bulloch's Roll; DSB Obituaries: Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society 1932-1935 vol l pp 425-441, plate, by C S Sherrington References: C E R Sherrington, 'Charles Scott Sherrington (1857-1952)' in NR 1975-6 vol 30 pp 45-63 Notes: O1 and DSB give later death date.
Code	NA8158

Archives associated with this Fellow

RefNo	Title	Date
EC/1909/04	Ramon y Cajal, Santiago: certificate of election to the Royal Society
IM/005350	Ramon y Cajal, Santiago	1993
IM/003731	Ramon y Cajal, Santiago	nd
NLB/10/81	Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Colonel Brooke	24 September 1894
NLB/9/308	Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Mr Collings	27 April 1894
NLB/8/1141	Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Dr Charles Scott Sherrington, [Fellow of the Royal Society]	5 March 1894
NLB/8/1119	Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Messrs R & J Beck, 68 Cornhill, E.C.	28 February 1894
NLB/10/869	Copy letter from Michael Foster, to Dr Charles Scott Sherrington, Fellow of the Royal Society	22 February 1895
NLB/9/86	Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Dr Sherrington, Fellow of the Royal Society	22 March 1894
NLB/9/312	Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Dr Charles Scott Sherrington, Fellow of the Royal Society	27 April 1894
NLB/9/227	Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Santiago Ramon y Cajal, University, Madrid	19 April 1894
NLB/9/243	Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Dr Charles Scott Sherrington, Fellow of the Royal Society	20 April 1894
NLB/9/424	Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Dr Charles Scott Sherrington, Fellow of the Royal Society	17 May 1894
NLB/39/729	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Dr F [Frederick] W [Walker] Mott, Fellow of the Royal Society	1 March 1909
NLB/40/292	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Messrs Harrison & Sons	17 May 1909
NLB/40/293	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Messrs Harrison & Sons	17 May 1909
NLB/9/145	Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Santiago Ramon y Cajal	6 April 1894
NLB/8/1110	Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Michael Foster, [Royal Society]	26 February 1894
IM/003732	Ramon y Cajal, Santiago	nd
PP/23/32	Paper, 'La fine structure des centres nerveux. The Croonian Lecture' [The structure of nerve centres] by Santiago Ramón y Cajal	1894
NLB/39/687	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Dr F [Frederick] W [Walker] Mott, Fellow of the Royal Society	24 February 1909
MC/17	Volume 17 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society	1897-1899

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