Santiago Ramón y Cajal

It is fascinating the new technological techniques done by scientist in these days. All investigations in particular follow a protocol of studying what has been studied, and then trying to discover something new. Although I had a good notion of how scientific research is conducted, the terminology and its definitions create an unclear environment of why science is conducted in such way. My poor connoisseurship on the field forces me to accept the protocols applied in these days, nevertheless, I looked at the old traditions of doing science and I wonder why science is conducted trough an expensive laborious way now in days.

A scientist named Santiago Ramon y Cajal modified Camillo Golgi’s technique of silver nitrate. By re-impregnate the slide with silver nitrate a second time, he was able to have a clearer image of the nervous tissue and discover the neurons and its connections. This economic way of doing science placed Ramon y Cajal as the father of Neuroscience.