Abstract

Santiago Ramon and Cajal was an atypical investigator in the Spain at end of XIXth century. Awarded with the Nobel prize, who shared with the Italian Camillo Golgi, its success had to the deep knowledge of the photographic processes. In the present article, the author exposes the characteristics of the histologicas tinciones and the photographic turns, tending to show the similarities between both, as well as to demonstrate that only one person who knew the processes perfectly photochemical could develop the method of Golgi so that she took to him to achieve the scientific successes that Cajal achieved. It is a tribute to the prestigious scientist in the occasion of being fulfilled the sesquicentennial celebration of his birth.

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