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Nature 409, 451 (25 January 2001) | doi:10.1038/35054232

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The brain in Spain

Xavier Bosch1 & Alison Abbott2

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The legacy of Santiago Ramón y Cajal, the brilliant Spanish neuroscientist, is to be preserved in a new museum. But the fight to recover his lost works goes on, say Xavier Bosch and Alison Abbott.

For a boy who dreamed of being an artist, but started his career apprenticed to first a barber and then a cobbler, Santiago Ramón y Cajal made a distinguished mark in science. He was both Spain's first Nobel laureate and a founding father of modern neuroscience.