CAJAL T-Shirt

Santiago Ramon y Cajal is undoubtedly one of the giants of neuroscience. His classic two-volume set on histology is required reading for any serious student of the brain. Not only are they a tour de force in the cellular structure of the nervous system, their publication demarcated the end of the beginning, a transition of neuroscience from a field trafficking in humours and pneumatics and ghosts in the machine steering us by our habenula into a modern science. Cajal was a master of the then recently discovered Golgi technique (la reazionne nera), a silver stain that randomly fills a limited number of neurons in a sample, coaxing them from a impenetrable miasma of neuropil with their processes painted in unabridged surreal glory (we still don't know how or why the technique works). His camera lucida drawings could just as easily be featured in an art gallery as in a Nobel awards ceremony. In fact, they have been. Design based on a public domain image. Customisable.