The Brain in Search of Itself: Santiago Ramón y Cajal and the Story of the Neuron

Unless you're a neuroscientist, Santiago Ramón y Cajal is likely the most important figure in the history of biology you've never heard of. Along with Darwin and Pasteur, he ranks among the most brilliant and original biologists of the nineteenth century, and his discoveries have done for our understanding of the human brain what the work of Galileo and Sir Isaac Newton did for our conception of the physical universe.



Benjamin Ehrlich's The Brain in Search of Itself is the first major biogra...