Santiago! Santiago Ramón y Cajal -- artist, scientist, troublemaker
"Santiago Ramón y Cajal was a mischief-maker extraordinaire. He wanted to grow up to be an artist, but his father said he had to be a doctor. Although he was forbidden by his parents to make art, Santiago secretly kept at it -- making homemade paints and brushes. He also loved figuring out how thin...
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| Format: | Books Print Book Comic & Graphic Novel |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Holiday House,
[2022]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: | "Santiago Ramón y Cajal was a mischief-maker extraordinaire. He wanted to grow up to be an artist, but his father said he had to be a doctor. Although he was forbidden by his parents to make art, Santiago secretly kept at it -- making homemade paints and brushes. He also loved figuring out how things worked and made slingshots for his friends and even a fully functional (and very dangerous) cannon. Sadly, the one thing he couldn't figure out was his father. After years of locking horns, Santiago's father seemed to win, and Santiago was sent to medical school. As a medical student, he discovered the wonders of how animal bodies work, and his studies eventually led him to the microscopic mysteries of the brain. Using the artistic skills he honed as a child, Santiago painted brain cells to unlock their secrets. In 1906, he won the Nobel Prize for medicine. The little artistic mischief-maker had grown up to be the father of modern neuroscience." -- Book jacket. |
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| Item Description: | Chiefly illustrations. A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection. |
| Physical Description: | 217 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Audience: | Ages 8 to 12 Grades 4-up |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9780823450367 0823450368 9780823454891 0823454894 |
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