| Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine | 
| Year: | 1901 | 
| Number: | 36 - 0 | 
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| Nominee: 
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| Name: | Santiago  Ramon y Cajàl | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Year, Birth: | 1852 | 
| Year, Death: | 1934 | 
| Profession: | prof histology | 
| University: | Madrid | 
| City: | Madrid | 
| Country: | SPAIN (ES) | 
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1906 | 
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| Motivation: | Refers to a large number of discoveries listed in a reference sent jointly by the Faculty of medicine, Madrid University. Studies of the cerebral cortex, and localization of function in the brain. | 
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| Nominator: 
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| Name: | Frederico Oloriz  Aquilera | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Profession: | prof descriptive anatomy and embryology | 
| University: | Madrid | 
| City: | Madrid | 
| Country: | SPAIN (ES) | 
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| Comments: | Evaluation included C. Golgi, and was corroborated by S. E. Henschen. | 
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