Santiago Ramón y Cajal
Portrait of Santiago Ramon y Cajal, unknown author (late nineteenth century), located in the Faculty of Medicine.
Santiago Ramón y Cajal, winner of the Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine in 1906, was Professor of Histology at the University of Barcelona between 1887 and 1892. 1888 was an important year for him, as it was then that he discovered the working mechanisms of the grey matter of the cerebro-spinal nervous system. His theory was accepted in 1889 at the Congress of the German Anatomical Society, held in Berlin. A flagship meeting room in the Historic Building bears his name.
Image: © University of Barcelona