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neuromorphogenesis:
Happy Birthday to the Father of Modern Neuroscience, Who Wanted to Be an Artist
It took Santiago Ramón y Cajal quite a while to find his true calling in life. He tried his hand at cutting hair and at fixing shoes. As a boy in the mid-1800s, he planned for a career as an artist. But his father, an anatomy professor, shook his head and decided that young Ramón y Cajal would pursue medicine instead. The would-be artist went on to found the field of modern neuroscience, earning the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine along the way. Born May 1, 1852, in Spain, Ramón y Cajal would have celebrated his 151st birthday today.
Before he began to stand out as a researcher, Ramón y Cajal had been an anatomy school assistant, a museum director and a professor and director of Spain’s National Institute of Hygiene. His most important work did not begin until around 1887, when he moved to the University of Barcelona and began investigating all of the brain’s different cell types. He discovered the axonal growth cone, which control the sensory and motor functions of nerve cells, and the interstitial cell of Cajal (later named after him), a nerve cell found in the smooth lining of the intestine. Perhaps most significantly, he developed the “neuron doctrine,” which demonstrated that nerve cells were individual rather than continuous cellular structures. Researchers consider this discovery the foundation of modern neuroscience.
In 1906, the Nobel committee awarded Ramón y Cajal and an Italian colleague the prize in Physiology or Medicine ”in recognition of their work on the structure of the nervous system.”
While Ramón y Cajal may have changed neuroscience forever, he maintained his original childhood passion. Throughout his career, he never gave up his art. He sketched hundreds of medical illustrations, and some of his drawings of brain cells are still used in classrooms today.
Images: 1. From “Structure of the Mammalian Retina” c.1900 By Santiago Ramon y Cajal.
2. Drawing of Purkinje cells and granule cells from pigeon cerebellum by Santiago Ramón y Cajal, 1899
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The Third of May 1808 (Execution of the Defenders of Madrid), painting by Francisco Goya ca. 1814
This painting was commissioned by the provisional government of Spain, upon Goya’s suggestion, to commemorate the invasion of Spain by Napoleon’s troops in 1808. At the time it was painted, the painting was considered groundbreaking and revolutionary, as it presents the horrors of war that had heretofore not been openly illustrated. The painting focuses on one man, illuminated in white light in the middle of the painting, arms held out to the sides, facing a French firing squad. His slain companions litter the ground. It is thus considered one of the first pieces of modern art.
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This amazing lady is Agustina Raimuna María Zaragoza y Domènech, known as Agustina de Aragón (1786-1857), the “Spanish Joan of Arc.” She was a brilliant young woman who fought for Spain in the Spanish War of Independence. This picture is her most famous moment, when she fired on French troops at point-blank range at the Siege of Zaragoza after the Spanish troops abandoned their posts. Her bravery inspired the troops to rally, and despite the eventual French victory in that battle, she became iconic from then on.
Agustina had hung around the Army barracks since she was 13, both because she was interested in war and because of a certain artillery gunner named Joan Roca Vila-Seca. They married for love and had a son, Eugenio, but she left Joan when the war for independence (known in English as the Peninsular War) broke out.
She was the Duke of Wellington’s only female officer and was eventually ranked a Captain. One of the commanders at the Battle of Vitòria, Agustina inarguably helped liberate Spain from France, and she survived all her wars – though her son, sadly, did not. She died at the old age of 71 in Ceuta, and is known in mythology, folklore, artwork, and most of all, history, as the heroine of Zaragoza.
Crushworthy? I think so.
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Museo de Arte Romano in Merida by Rafael Moneo, Lost in Translation.
Love-Spain
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God bless the Spanish army
… fuck.
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| ♕ | Historic Ronda - Andalusia, Spain | by © John in Scotland
Puente Nuevo (New Bridge) is soaring over the 100m deep Tajo gorge in Ronda of Malaga, Andalusia, Spain. A remarkable feat of the 18th century engineering.
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La Pared, Canary Islands, Spain
Lovely environment (by Pilar Azaña)
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