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Ramon y Cajal, a Nobel Prize in Aragon - Santiago Ramon y Cajal, Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1906, was born on May 1, 1852, at Petilla in Aragon, Spain. As a boy he was apprenticed first to a barber and then to a cobbler. He himself wished to be an artist - his gift for draughtsmanship is evident in his published works. His father, ...
Miguel Servet (Michael Servetus) - Spanish theologian and physician. His name in Spanish was Miguel Servet or Miguel Serveto and in English Michael Servetus. He was born in Villanueva de Sigena (Aragon). In his early years he came in contact with some of the leading reformers in Germany and Switzerland—Johannes Oecolampadius, ...
Felix de Azara - Felix de Azara, Spanish naturalist born in Barbuñales (Huesca, Aragon) in 18 May 1746 and died there in 1811. He attended a mathematical school at Barcelona and in 1767 became an army lieutenant with an engineering specialty. In 1775 he took part in the disastrous Spanish attack on Algiers ...