2023Santiago Ramón y Cajal Research Year - Homage to the Spanish Neurohistological School - First Day Cover

Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852-1934), winner of the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1906, laid the foundations of modern neuroscience by analysing the structure of the nervous system micron by micron and demonstrating the independence of the nerve cell, the basis of neuronal theory. He was a professor in Valencia, Barcelona and Madrid, and in his work Rules and advice on scientific research he stated: "The purest glory of the master consists, not in training disciples who follow him, but in training wise men who surpass him".