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Book SynopsisThe first major biography of the Nobel Prizewinning scientist who discovered neurons and transformed our understanding of the human mindillustrated with his extraordinary anatomical drawings
As the pioneer of modern neuroscience, Santiago Ramón y Cajal may be the most influential figure in the history of biology you've never heard of. Along with Charles Darwin and Louis Pasteur, Cajal ranks among the most brilliant and original scientists of the nineteenth century, and his discoveries have done for our understanding of the human brain what the work of Galileo and Sir Isaac Newton did for our conception of the physical universe. Cajal was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1906 for his lifelong investigation of the structure of neuronsthe mysterious butterflies of the soul, he called them, whose beating of wings may one day reveal to us the secrets of the mind. And he produced a dazzling oeuvre of anatomical drawings, whose otherworldly beauty conjured a vivid image of our ment
