With whom did Ramón y Cajal share the Nobel Prize in 1906?
Albert Einstein
Camillo Golgi
Niels Bohr
Ernest O. Lawrence
Answer
Ramón y Cajal shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1906 with Camillo Golgi for their work on the structure of the nervous system. Golgi developed a staining technique that allowed him to see the cellular structures of the nervous system, and Cajal used this technique to study the brain and spinal cord.
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