Purkinje Cells, Cajal, 1899


A drawing of Purkinje cells, in the cerebellum of a pigeon, stained with potassium dichromate and silver nitrate. By Santiago RamÌ_n y Cajal, 1899. Cajal (1852-1934) was a Spanish pathologist, histologist, neuroscientist, and Nobel laureate (1906), and is considered by many to be the father of modern neuroscience.


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