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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 WürzburgWurzburg is a city in Bavaria, Germany. Located on the Main river, it is the capital of the Regierungsbezirk Unterfranken. For the German World War II radar system of the same name see Wuerzburg radar''. The city of Wurzburg is not included in Wurzburg (d, and Doctor of Philosophy of the Clark UniversityClark University in Worcester, Massachusetts in the United States, is a private teaching and research institution founded in 1887. Clark is the second oldest graduate institution in the United States and the oldest graduate institution in New England..

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 normal histology and micrographic technique," "Elements of histology, etc.," "Manual of general pathological anatomy," "New ideas on the fine anatomy of the nerve centres," "Textbook on the nervous system of man and the vertebrates," and "The retina of vertebrates."

His most famous studies were on the structure of the cortexThe outermost layer of the brain, the cortex is rich in neurons and is the site of most sophisticated neural processing (See also: cerebral cortex). Or, more generally, the outermost portion of certain biological structures (See below). The human cortex i of the brainFor other articles about other subjects named brain see brain (disambiguation). In the anatomy of animals, the brain or encephalon is the supervisory center of the nervous system. Although the brain is usually cited as the supervisory center of vertebrate. He discovered that the nervous systemThe nervous system of an animal coordinates the activity of the muscles, monitors the organs, constructs and processes input from the senses, and initiates actions. see Central Nervous System). In animals with brains, the nervous system also generates and is made up of billions of separate nerve cells ( neurons) and that nerve cells are polarThis article treats polarization in electrodynamics. Other articles treat polarization in electrostatics, polarization in politics and polarization in psychology. In electrodynamics, polarization is a property of waves, such as light and other electromagnized. He described the terminal branching of neurons, devised a way to stain nerve tissues, and made many other discoveries in the structure of the nervous system. For this work he was awarded the Nobel PrizeThe Nobel Prizes (pronounced no-BELL or no-bell are awarded annually to people who have done outstanding research, invented groundbreaking techniques or equipment, or made outstanding contributions to society. It is generally regarded as the supreme comme in 1906, which he shared with Camillo Golgi.

He married Silveria Fañanás García in 1879 with whom he had four daughters and three sons. He died in Madrid in 1934.