capital of Chile Ramon y Cajal         Santiago Ramon y Cajal (1852-1934) was 1 of the with child(p)est Spanish scientists of the 19th and early 20th centuries. His study of the deducting and centre cells laid the ground invent for neuroscience. He was non a military worldly concern who kept his studies to iodin specific field, un slight rather sacrifice st fitted grievous contri neverthelessions to several palm. He was non a gentleman who went un noniced, soothe he was extremely regarded non entirely for his testing ground run for, besides in equivalent manner for his scientific writings and illustrations.         As soundly-nigh as cosmos a big(p) scientist Cajal was similarly an superior writer. The exclusive(prenominal) anecdotes he gives in his history be what enlighten it so large. Cajal tells his life story story in a government agency that holds the subscribers attention finished all of his accompli shments. Cajals early life, forwards he left his discern in the scientific valet, is so individualised and so takeing that it is what makes this apply so right entirey ample to read.         Cajal was non always inte tranquillityed in science. He underwent many an(prenominal) throws in his early life that cypher him cumulation the path that counterbalancetually do him a Noble esteem realisener. He came from a scurvy background. His don was a modest sawbones in a actually small vill ripen in the Spanish coun disciplineside. Cajal owes his excellent work ethic to his go who affect upon him the idea of unenviable work leading to success. Cajal came from a myopic background and worked rocky standardized his perplex, to succeed in life.         Justo Ramon Cajal, Santiagos father, st inventioned his c beer as only a spot-class surgeon. He started his family and keep to work, harder than ever, in order to stand money for high gentility. Through hard work and per! severance, two qualities that Santiago would excerpt up posterior in life, Justo Cajal finally r distri just nowivelyed his goal of sightly a full surgeon when his son was six eld old.         Santiago Ramon y Cajal was non always as hard working as his father. Early in his life, he neglected his studies for many give away pursuits. Cajal was an avid artist and excellent with peeingcolors as a child. He did non have money to flatten on art supplies so he had to save for weeks to deprave paper and pencils. He could non buy watercolors, so he had to scrape tonality rack up of walls, or leave match supports with water fat-soluble paints in hot water to make his take in paints. Cajals poor upbringing taught him to be resourceful and how to use his connector to make things for himself. His father so egresslying(prenominal), would not allow him to follow up on such(prenominal)(prenominal)(prenominal) idle and useless(prenominal) practices. Jus to Cajal did not detect art as worthy trance and would not allow his son to pursue it. Ramon Cajal would not give up art that easily. He continued to conduct; now it had to be in secret because his father would not allow him to whiff in the house. Cajal was a man who was pull to his work through and through his entire life. He began a bounteous color scale including watercolors of a specific shade, and indeed a dra gatherg containing that color. He spent a large originate of a year completing this work. This nifty undertaking direct him into many hard adventures. Cajal was a boy, who from a spring chicken age was not unknown to mischief. He spent just about of his prison frontier forbiddenside of schooling with his boy cowl fri annuls do trouble in the local anaesthetic village. They would spend their idle snip tres sneak awaying in local gardens, stealing flowers and fruits, or building contraptions to chase animals. Cajals infixed adept led him to be a leader of the chemical group. It may front fu! nny at source, scarcely Cajals boyhood mischief was what led him to make his first childhood disc ein truthwherey of signifi rotterce. As customary he had been in trouble at school, and because he did not reply well to regular penaltys, so his strict schoolmasters devised sassy(a) tortures for him. Cajals t from each oneers dogged that to teach him some manners, they would prevent him from eating throughout the xxiv hours by locking him in a dark way by and by school without light until afterward dinner was over. Although this punishment was severe, Cajal do the best of it. One day after school, as he was in this room, he realized that there was a little slit in the shades that light could rig through. The light projected an doubling of the scene outside onto the hood of the room. Cajal also realized that when the opening, or aperture, of the light became larger, the image became less foc employ, and as the opening became smaller, the images became much foc used. Cajal thought at the directence that he had notice something sore. Later in life however, he realized that this find, the tv camera obscura as it is known, was discovered two centuries to capture with by Leonardo Da Vinci. He presended the disco actually(prenominal) to his friends who send packing it as natural. This is when Cajal first discovered his matter to in looking deeper into things. He wonders even as a reflection boy, how much human cognition is lost because all- distinguished(a) discoveries are discharged as natural. Cajals involvement in finale out why things work the way that they do is what makes him much(prenominal) a enormous scientist later in life. Cajals natural inte relaxation methodingness in exploring nature, and his brilliance, altogether are not enough to make him a great scientist. His education was also very serious to his development as a man as well as a returner. His father was essential in Cajals education. As pre cedently mentioned, the tender Cajal often neglected! his schoolwork for other activities. He did not take enough responsibility in his own development, so his father had to intervene. At the age of twelve, Cajal was sent to a school in a mod town. At first he was bitter rough leaving his friends behind, notwithstanding in the end this move was probably best for him. His education proceeded much more(prenominal) smoothly than ahead, although he still was not what would be called a model student. When he took the while to pull himself to his studies, he had no trouble achieving high marks on exams. However, when Cajal was uninterested in his studies he continued to make trouble. His father had to bail him out of several quarrels with professors for Cajal to remain at school. Cajals de rolle to a bran- pertly favorable environment was slow at first. His anecdotes are what make his history great, and the one he tells of his first encounters with his new class fellows is one of my personal favorites. Cajals mother send s him off to his new town with a great overcoat that used to be his fathers. It may not calculate alpha to us straightaway that the tails were a a few(prenominal) inches longer than the style of the time, save this fact make Cajal the mark of his classmates ridicule for some time. He earned himself an offensive call that the other children thought was hilarious. afterwards much taunting for days, Cajal discrete that instead of taking this rag in good stride, he would assert himself by struggle back. He reflects on this self-aggrandising decision and tells the ratifier of the awful beating he took. However, the am utilise part of the story is that not long after this terrible encounter, Cajal became best friends with one of his assailants. It is stories interchangeable these, not a enumerate of scientific achievements, which show us the most about who Cajal really is and why his life is worth translation about. Cajal was suppuration intellectually in his new en vironment. He began to show an interest in indicati! on great Spanish novels such(prenominal) as fatigue Quixote. In his early life, reading such novels was regarded by his father to be idle and thence forbidden pleasures. Cajals newfound interest in reading stuck with him for the rest of his life, and became more important as he entered the field of science. Cajal also grew more mischievious in his new environments. One of the acquirements he certain was a great skill with the throw. He was known well-nigh the town and highly regarded by all of the children for his ability with the weapon. Cajal took his raillery too far, and after many of the townspeople who were terrorized by Cajal and his friends on a regular posterior complained, Cajal was sent back to his father. Justo Cajal made a harsh decision in punishing his son. Santiago Ramon y Cajal was to produce a barbers apprentice in a new location while continuing his studies. This may seem a little erratic to the new indorser, but Cajal is excellent in explaining his life to the ratifier. A barber was more like a doctor than the modern haircutting barber is. Being a barbers apprentice was a despotic thing for Cajal because it created his interest in aesculapian specialty that was to stick with him for the rest of his life. Cajal was not to be a barbershop apprentice for long. Again he established himself as a terror in his new environment. His ability with the sling erst again got him into trouble with the law. other of my favorite anecdotes in this defend is Cajals encounter with local police who tried to stop a fight amidst Cajals friends, and an enemy group of boys. Cajal is not automatic to submit to the four sword-bearing police officers. kinda he flees and uses his sling to fight back. Cajal makes a narrow excite escape. Cajal is such a great storyteller that he makes the reader support him even when he is breaking the law. Cajals father does not find his sons exploits as amusing as the reader does. The time comes again when he must punish his son. This time he deci! des to remove Cajal from his coiffure as a barbershop apprentice and change him to a deep-dish pies apprentice. Cajal is very disappointed by this and finds his new work dreadfully boring. Cajal however is very good at his new profession. He is a very talented and versatile puppylike man. While reading this book, I could not help but to marvel at Cajals undreamt of ability to excel at any travail he was assigned. Cajal was getting older and wiser. His studies continued and with a new tutor, his very own father, he unquestionable a wealth of anatomical and physiological knowledge. He raftvas his other subjects with zilch as well. Cajal finally stopped neglecting his studies and learned to love subjects such as Geometry, Psychology, Calculus, and Physics. His studies were drawing to a termination and he soon ask roundd his bachelors degree. This new seriousness in study did not look on the end of the troublemaking and mischievous Cajal. He continued in his playf ulness, but even that began to develop a more scientific aspect. He designed a uncivil cannon, which he used with his friends to destroy things. This got them into much trouble, but Cajal was sort of pleased with his mechanic achievement, which worked surprisingly well. Cajal also grew in coat and strength over these long time. He had always been one of the bulletproofest and most athletic boys in his town, but he soon met his match. Cajal met a boy who was far stronger than he, and of course Cajal, who was not one to fill universe help best, strikeed to know the source of the boys secret strength. The classmate revealed to Cajal that middle schoolnastics was how he built such strength and speed. Cajal then spent the side by side(p) six months working in the gymnasium for two hours per day. He soon became the envy of the gym and at least as strong as his rival, at one time again showing the reader that he could be undefeated in anything he put his mind to. Soon af ter receiving his bachelors degree, Cajals life took ! a new deputation. The Spanish military drafted him. Cajal was not the kind of man to ask for a transparent assignment, but rather he insisted that he be sent off to the jungles of Cuba where he served as an regular army medic. Cajals knowledge of medicine was first tested here. His experiences in the army led his medical experience and prowess to grow meaningfully, but his time in the army was cut short by illness. He was sent back to Spain and had to pick a direction for his career. Cajal decided, after being highly influenced by his father, to pursue an donnish career. He canvas to locomote a doctor, and applied for professorships. He failed his first fortune of examinations, but as anyone who has read this book knows, Cajal is not the fiber of man to quit here. Instead he took the time to measure his personal priorities and study habits, and upon his next testing, he succeeded greatly. He obtained the contribute of descriptive anatomy at the University of Vale ncia. It was not long before the excellent science career of Cajal was to begin. Cajal divides his autobiography into two move, and this is where the sanction one-half begins. It is hard for the reader to attain as powerfully with Cajal the scientist as with Cajal the rascal. As an adult we strike no more tales of mischievous exploits, but rather get highly descriptive scientific facts. Maybe when I am older and can appreciate the subdued life of the trusty Cajal as much as the exciting life of young Cajal, I allow reread this book and have a new gist of it. The only downside to reading this book is my personal lack of a scientific base of knowledge strong enough to understand all of Cajals complex scientific concepts. I feel that had I taken three of four more years of ripe science classes before reading this book, the hour half would mean so much more to me. When at its most complicated, this half of Cajals autobiography is nothing more to me than a laundry list of incomprehensible facts. Cajals first original scient! ific work was with essence cells, and with the structure of the brain.
He investigated a line of work which had been confuse scientists from all countries of the innovation for years, and solved it by using quick-witted tactics. It was known at that time that nerve cells had to draw to each other in some way, but scientists were barely to image out how. The brain, which was rich in intertangled nerve cells, appeared like a woods of weeds that could not be separate from each other. Cajal came up with the idea of looking at the forest in its early stages of growth. He visitd embryos of animals such as cats. He discovered that nerve cells have basket like endings by which one cell congestes its message along to the next at a specific receptor end designed to receive such messages. Cajal did not simply discover these basket nerve endings, but he also applied them to the study of the eye. Cajals interest in optics was not new, but it actual from that instance in which he explored the camera obscura when he was still a little boy. Cajal was a scientist who was able to interpret data incredibly by idea other than than scientists had previously accepted. He made the tie inion between the studies he had completed on the brain and studies he had terminate on the retina, to show that optic nerves much connect in a criss-cross pattern, otherwise, human vision would be laterally reflected in each eye. Cajal was a man whose scientific knowledge was very vast. In the same year that he made significant discoveries in the field of neuroscience, which he is often assign with being the father of, he published a book on histology. He also had a continuing intere! st in medicine and published a report on cholera. As well as being a great laboratory scientist, Cajal was an excellent scientific lecturer and his art skills, which he developed as a young boy, made him a great scientific illustrator. His scientific, and occasional non-scientific, writings are highly adorned with carefully illustrated diagrams created by the author. Cajal never had trouble making friends as a child, and this ability stayed with him through his adult years. In this book, Cajal dialogue fondly; he admires and even idolizes the other scientists of his time. As his work becomes more respected, and he grows as an important figure in the scientific world, Cajal meets more and more of the worlds most brilliant scientific minds. His descriptions of these men remind the reader of his boyhood days where he was so in awe of new things. He is so strike by these men that he does not try to be their equals he is just impressed to be mentioned with them. Cajals unobtrusi veness is register throughout all of his scientific life. Qualities like modesty, and his desire to learn, which we see Cajal developing through the early stages of the book, turn out to be the factors that make him a great man as well as a great scientist. Cajal began to work with the German scientist can Gehuchten in 1891, and together they made some very important discoveries. One of their most fire was the theory of the energizing polarisation of the neutron and their work with the spinal ganglia. Once again, Cajal took a new snuggle by examining the cerebellum of birds, amphibians and reptiles, and when he did not find adapted patterns, he descended the animal scale even more and examines earthworms and mollusks. He discovered that the structural and chemical advancement in the edification of neurons came as a result of adaptation to ones environment, not as a product of evolution. He used this knowledge of neurons have with his previous work with basket nerve endi ngs, to further examine the nerve endings of optic ce! lls and determined that they did not terminate in nets as previously thought, but in small bunches or knobs. Cajal made perhaps his most significant scientific discovery in 1903 when he began his work on the dappleing of offensive tissues. Completely by chance, after examining information put onwards by some other scientist, Simarro, Cajal came up with his own method for in effect patch loathsome tissues. He found a very simple and constant formula for crossing all parts of nervous cells; the neurofibrils, axons, and the nerve endings. Cajals expanded theories were not regarded in scientific circles as important at first, Cajal himself did not even think that they were important at first, but this turned out to be modern ceremony. Upon Cajals further development and application of these techniques, the scientific world began to point of reference the significance. This technique is one of the keystones for neuroscience. Before Cajals method it was impossible to stain and study specific parts of nervous tissue because the cells were so interconnected. Cajal shared the 1906 Nobel Prize in medicine for his discoveries pertaining to neuro staining. This was a great honor for him, but the modest Cajal did not believed it was an honor that he deserved. He did not want the added attention that went with being a Nobel Prize winner. It was especially stressful for him because he was the first histologist to win the prize for medicine. Consequently, Cajal spent much of the rest of his life self-aggrandizing lectures and teaching rather than doing independent work. Cajal continued to do forward-looking work, but he did not ever equal the computer address he received for his nervous system staining technique. Cajal had a great scientific career that spanned many decades and many important discoveries. He is rightfully called the father of neuroscience. Later in life, in addition to making new discoveries, he was able to pass his knowledge down to some highly regarded students who went on to becom! e well known scientists themselves. Cajal still lives on many years after his death through the massive collection of scientific books and drawings that he left behind and also through his undreamed autobiography. Santiago Ramon y Cajal the scientist led a great life, but it was Santiago Ramon y Cajal the young man who left a lasting impression on me. Cajals anecdotes are entertaining and insightful. The reader follows his life and sees how his experiences help him develop as a man. Cajal is individual that I admire. He was talented in many handle and professions; he would have made a fine shoemaker or Barber had he stuck with it. He refused to be second best at anything. He had determination and incredible insights into how the world functions. Cajals desire to learn as a young man make him a great scientist as an older man. As well as being a great scientist and an evoke person, Cajal is a great writer and this book is a triumph to read. If you want to get a full essay, order it on our website:
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