name
Spanish
Santiago Ramón y Cajal
san-tee-AH-goh rah-MON ee kah-KHAL
ˌsæntiˈɑːɡoʊ rɑːˈmɒn iː kɑːˈxɑːlListen
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Syllable breakdown
SantiagoRamónyCajal
Name meaning and origin
- Origin
- Spanish name.
- Meaning
- Spanish neuroscientist (1852–1934) who discovered the neuron doctrine — that the nervous system is composed of discrete individual nerve cells — earning the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1906.
Common mispronunciations
kah-JALRA-mon ee KAH-jal
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