Cajal
noun
Santiago Ramon y. 1852–1934, Spanish histologist, a pioneer of modern neurophysiology: shared the Nobel prize for medicine 1906.
Historical Examples
A History of Science, Volume 4(of 5) Henry Smith Williams
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