Cajalidades

Santiago Ramón y Cajal shared the 1906 Nobel Prize for Medicine with Camillo Golgi, in “recognition of their work on the structure of the nervous system”. He spent most of his life looking through the microscope, and discovered the neurons in the brain and how they are connected. His father wanted him to be a doctor like him, but Santiago wanted to be an artist. Finally, in medicine he found the way to unite his two great passions: science and art, and this fusion led him to make great discoveries.

In this workshop, we’ll tell his story and discover Cajal’s love of painting; experiment with obtaining pigments from natural mixtures and elements, and create neuronal forms with the colours obtained.