{"id":21785,"date":"2021-11-23T14:44:50","date_gmt":"2021-11-23T13:44:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.nobelprizemuseum.se\/?p=21785"},"modified":"2024-10-18T13:25:25","modified_gmt":"2024-10-18T11:25:25","slug":"art-and-science-meet-when-the-nobel-prize-museum-displays-cajals-nerve-cell-drawings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.nobelprizemuseum.se\/en\/art-and-science-meet-when-the-nobel-prize-museum-displays-cajals-nerve-cell-drawings\/","title":{"rendered":"Art and science meet when the Nobel Prize Museum displays Cajal\u2019s nerve cell drawings"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"school_subject":[],"school_grade":[],"class_list":["post-21785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press"],"acf":{"ingress":"On 24 November, the Nobel Prize Museum will be visited by the heads of the Spanish and Swedish royal families. They have been invited for a guided tour of a special exhibition that will display the drawings of Nobel Prize laureate Santiago Ram\u00f3n y Cajal. Also on display will be works by contemporary visual artists who have been inspired by the artistically gifted scientist Cajal. The exhibition will be open to the public from 25 November to 4 December.","info":[{"title":"Press release","link":""},{"title":"22 November 2021","link":""}],"post_block":[{"acf_fc_layout":"single_image_block","image":{"ID":21786,"id":21786,"title":"0 R","filename":"Cajal1-1.jpg","filesize":1026735,"url":"https:\/\/wp.nobelprizemuseum.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Cajal1-1.jpg","link":"https:\/\/wp.nobelprizemuseum.se\/en\/art-and-science-meet-when-the-nobel-prize-museum-displays-cajals-nerve-cell-drawings\/0-r\/","alt":"","author":"9","description":"Santiago Ram\u00f3n y Cajal\nInk on paper, Instituto Cajal CSIC","caption":"Santiago Ram\u00f3n y Cajal\nInk on paper, Instituto Cajal CSIC","name":"0-r","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":21785,"date":"2021-11-23 13:42:54","modified":"2021-11-23 13:43:13","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/wp.nobelprizemuseum.se\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1447,"height":1851,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.nobelprizemuseum.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Cajal1-1-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.nobelprizemuseum.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Cajal1-1-235x300.jpg","medium-width":235,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.nobelprizemuseum.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Cajal1-1-768x982.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":982,"large":"https:\/\/wp.nobelprizemuseum.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Cajal1-1-801x1024.jpg","large-width":801,"large-height":1024,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.nobelprizemuseum.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Cajal1-1-1201x1536.jpg","1536x1536-width":1201,"1536x1536-height":1536,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.nobelprizemuseum.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Cajal1-1.jpg","2048x2048-width":1447,"2048x2048-height":1851,"380x305":"https:\/\/wp.nobelprizemuseum.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Cajal1-1.jpg","380x305-width":357,"380x305-height":457}}},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_content","text_block":"
In the late 19th and early 20th century, scientists took decisive steps towards a deeper knowledge of how the human brain and the nervous system function. Perhaps one of the most important pioneers of neuroscience was Santiago Ram\u00f3n y Cajal (1852-1934) of Spain, who received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1906 for his research about the nervous system. With the aid of methods for colouring cells so they could be studied under a microscope, Cajal successfully mapped different types of nerve cells in the brain.\u00a0Cajal, a medical doctor, was also a highly talented artist. His drawings of what he saw under the microscope showed the nervous system with marvellous clarity.<\/p>\n
\u201cCajal’s gift to posterity consists not only of his pioneering scientific achievements. He also gave us his artistry, and works that enabled the convoluted patterns of human nerve cells to be visualised and made comprehensible. His drawings are a fine example of how art and science can be woven together,\u201d says Erika Lanner, Director of the Nobel Prize Museum.<\/p>\n
Their Majesties King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia of Spain, together with Their Majesties King Carl XVI Gustav and Queen Silvia of Sweden, will receive a guided tour of the exhibition entitled Synapses: Science and Art in Spain, from Ram\u00f3n y Cajal to the 21st Century<\/em>. In addition to Cajal’s drawings, the exhibition will feature works by a number of people who had contact with him, including poet Federico Garc\u00eda Lorca and artist Salvador Dal\u00ed. It will also display works by five contemporary visual artists who have been strongly influenced by Cajal. These works are connected in various ways to international scientific projects.<\/p>\n The exhibition will be on display from 25 November to 4 December and is the result of a collaboration between three Spanish government ministries \u2212 the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation; the Ministry of Education; and the Ministry of Science and Innovation \u2212 in partnership with the Cervantes Institute and the Provincial Council of Huesca. The curator of the exhibition, which is on loan to the Nobel Prize Museum, is Juan Manuel Bonet.<\/p>\n Santiago Ram\u00f3n y Cajal and the Italian pathologist Camillo Golgi were jointly awarded the 1906 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine “in recognition of their work on the structure of the nervous system”.<\/p>\n Press briefing
\n<\/strong><\/b>There will be a press briefing for media on 24 November at 15.00. Curator Juan Manuel Bonet will attend. Please contact Rebecka Oxelstr\u00f6m, Head of press at the Nobel Foundation, if you would like to attend. rebecka.oxelstrom@nobelprize.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n