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Sign: Madrid - Buen Retiro Park - Memorial statue to brain researcher Santiago Ramón y Cajal


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P.º de Venezuela, 5, Retiro, 28009 Madrid, Spain
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CAJAL
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The statue, made by Victorio Macho in 1926, commemorates the physician and researcher Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852-1934), winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1906), who is considered one of the greatest brain researchers of all time, among them the structure of a single neuron, and the fact that the nervous system is made up of individual cells and not as a network.

Behind the statue are two fountains with the Latin text
FONS VITAE
FONS MORTIS

which mean: Fountain of Life and Fountain of Death, and reliefs indicating birth and death

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Fountain of Life Click for a larger image
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