In this deeply researched and intimate book, Ehrlich illuminates his subject’s life and work, hailing him as a “complicated and monumental man” who “produced the first clear evidence that the brain is composed of individual cells, later termed neurons, fundamentally the same as those that make up the rest of the living world.” The author delves deep, building on his research for his previous book, The Dreams of Santiago Ramón y Cajal. Inspired by drawing and photography, he created innumerable images of objects he viewed through his microscope, and his legacy as a pioneering neuroscientist is entwined with his artistic achievements, which include drawings of neurons and other cells that are frequently displayed in major museums. Against this backdrop, Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852-1934) devoted himself passionately to the study of microscopic structures that comprise living tissue. In the late 1800s, Europe was rippling with activity in science, art, and politics. An in-depth biography of the Nobel laureate who “is considered the founder of modern neuroscience.”
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