title: [Santiago Ramon y Cajal and neurobiology].
abstract: In 2001 the centennial of the first Nobel Prizes is celebrated. This essay, which portrays the Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine in 1906 Don Santiago Ramón y Cajal, should be seen as a contribution to that celebration. The aim of the essay is to present one of the founders of modern neuroscience and greatest scientists of all time, his life history, personality, working methods and driving forces as well as his scientific contributions. The title of the essay "Ideas -- like the white water-lily - flourish only in tranquil waters" is a quotation from Ramón y Cajal which characterizes him very well as a scientist. He was extremely productive, he made fundamental contributions to a number of fields within neurobiology with a very few mistakes, and he did it all by himself.
authors.affiliation: Institutionen för molekylär medicin, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Lindsten
mesh_terms: D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D009446:Neurobiology / Q000266:history*; D009613:Nobel Prize; D013030:Spain