Science Fair Project Encyclopedia Santiago Ramón y Cajal He was
born in Petilla de Aragón , a Navarrese enclave in Aragon, Spain
and attended the medical school of Zaragoza, from which he
graduated in 1873. He also became a Doctor of Medicine in Madrid
in 1883. He was the director of the Zaragoza Museum (1879). He
became a university professor at Valencia (1881), at Barcelona
(1886), and at Madrid (1892). He was Director of the National
Institute of Hygiene (1899). He founded the Laboratorio de
Investigaciones Biológicas (1902) which later became the Cajal
Institute (1922). Among his many distinctions and memberships of
societies, he was also made an honorary Doctor of Medicine of
the Universities of Cambridge and Würzburg, and Doctor of
Philosophy of the Clark University. He published over 100
scientific works and articles in French, Spanish and German. His
most famous works are "Rules and advices on scientific
investigation," "Histology," "Degeneration and regeneration of
the nervous system," "Manual of nor