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Spain, Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Medicine, 1907, a bronze medal by M. Benlliure y Gil, bust left partly encircled by branch of oak, rev. legend in 7 lines, 72mm (ANS Exh. Cat. 1910, p.12, 6; BDM VII, 67). Very fine and very rare (£50-70)

Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852-1934), studied medicine at the University of Saragossa; appointed chair of histology and pathological anatomy at Barcelona, 1887, and later at Madrid, 1892; shared the Nobel Prize in Medicine for 1906 with Camillo Golgi for their work on the structure of the nervous system. Further biographical detail is sold with the lot. Illustration reduced