Death · 17 October 1934

Death of Santiago Ramón y Cajal

Spanish biologist and pathologist Santiago Ramón y Cajal, joint recipient of the 1906 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for work on the nervous system, died on 17 October 1934.

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Santiago Ramón y Cajal
LITFL · Historical date : 1934-10-17

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