Santiago Ramón y Cajal was a Spanish neuroscientist, pathologist, and histologist specializing in neuroanatomy, and the central nervous system. He and Camillo Golgi received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1906. Ramón y Cajal was the first Spaniard to win a scientific Nobel Prize. His original investigations of the microscopic structure of the brain made him a pioneer of modern neuroscience.

Headlines from October 18, 1934

Vaccine to Prevent Peritonitis, Chief Risk in Surgery, Discovered; Its Development by Boston Physicians Is Described to Congress of Surgeons -- New X-Ray Technique for Detecting Cancer of Stomach Is Also Revealed. FIND PREVENTIVE OF PERITONITIS

FUNERAL OF KING HELD IN BELGRADE; Vast Assemblage Falls to Knees as Alexander's Body Is Borne Through Streets to Train. NATIONS' RULERS ATTEND Throngs Weep as Boy King Passes By -- Slain Monarch to Lie Beside Grandfather. FUNERAL OF KING HELD IN BELGRADE

HOUSING JOBS USED TO AID DEMOCRATS, MOSES DECLARES; Farley and Flynn Are Using PWA Work Here to Win Election, He Charges. TURNS FIRE ON LEHMAN Nonpartisanship Pledge Is 'Bunk,' He Asserts -- Straus Defends Hillside Project. MOSES DENOUNCES FOES OVER HOUSING

YOUTH GETS TERM IN EDSEL FORD PLOT; Quickly Sentenced to 10 Years as He Admits Sending a Note Demanding $5,000. HAD THREATENED DEATH 'You Are on the Spot,' He Wrote -- Easily Caught in Federal Agents' Trap at Detroit. YOUTH GETS TERM IN EDSEL FORD PLOT

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