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

The Nobel Prize-winning scientist who transformed our understanding of the human mind-now the first major biography of this singular figure.

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 Charles Darwin and Louis Pasteur, he ranks among the most brilliant and original biologists of the nineteenth century. His lifelong investigation of neurons-"the mysterious butterflies of the soul," Caja...