by Santiago Ramón y Cajal · FisicalBook · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788423900909
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«Mi infancia y juventud» is the autobiography of Santiago Ramón y Cajal, published in the Colección Austral in paperback (266 pages, in Spanish).
The book narrates the first part of the memoirs of Santiago Ramón y Cajal. The author reviews his childhood and youth, the family environment, his early studies, and the experiences that awakened his vocation for science, up to the moment he begins to move toward medicine and research.
The work belongs to the Colección Austral (no. 90) and was originally published as the first part of the author's memoirs, Recuerdos de mi vida.
For readers interested in biographies and memoirs, as well as in the history of science in Spain.
Santiago Ramón y Cajal was a Spanish neuroscientist, pathologist, and histologist specialising in neuroanatomy, and the central nervous system. He and Camillo Golgi received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1906. Ramón y Cajal was the first Spaniard to win a scientific Nobel Prize. His original investigations of the microscopic structure of the brain made him a pioneer of modern neuroscience.
