The Founding Father of Neuroscience was an Artist Santiago Ramón y Cajal was first and foremost an artist who later fell in love with the human body. With what little money he did have he set up a laboratory where he could study body tissue under his microscope. After discovering Camillo Golgi's method, a way to stain neurons, Cajal worked to perfect the method in order to creating accurate depictions to illustrate his papers. "Santiago Ramón y Cajal used drawing... as a vital way of thinking out loud, of giving form to ideas, of making arguments and fleshing out theories around the skeleton of observations."
--Maria Popova Through countless hours of observations, he came up with the idea that there was a gap separating neurons in which allowed for communication. This would later be named the synapse by Charles Sherrington. Cajal and Golgi went on to win the Nobel Prize in 1906 for their work on the structure of the Nervous System. His autobiography "Cajal: Recollections of My Life" was divided into two parts discussing his art and scientific career. Cajal was a true Renaissance Man and an inspiration to me personally. Sources: 1. 2.
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