The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1906
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Camillo Golgi
Prize share: 1/2
Photo from the Nobel Foundation archive.
Santiago Ramón y Cajal
Prize share: 1/2
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1906 was awarded jointly to Camillo Golgi and Santiago Ramón y Cajal "in recognition of their work on the structure of the nervous system"
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