Cajal on the Cerebral Cortex: An Annotated Translation of the Complete Writings (History of Neuroscience, 1)

Cajal, Santiago Ramon y; DeFelipe, Javier

Oxford University Press, 1988

[Cerebral Cortex Anatomy & Histology] First Printing. Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Shelf wear. Jacket sunned. Dust jacket in protective mylar cover. Owner's name stamped on edges and front end page, else unmarked. xvi, 654 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. 

Santiago Ramon y Cajal was a Spanish histologist who (with Camillo Golgi) received the 1906 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for establishing the neuron, or nerve cell, as the basic unit of nervous structure. This finding was instrumental in the recognition of the neuron's fundamental role in nervous function and in gaining a modern understanding of the nerve impulse.