{"id":7534,"date":"2026-04-21T12:35:35","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T10:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/espaciocajal.com\/chapter-9\/"},"modified":"2026-10-05T14:24:22","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T12:24:22","slug":"chapter-9","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/espaciocajal.com\/en\/chapter-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Chapter 9 (1922-1934)"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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On May 1, 1922, Cajal retired upon turning seventy. On August 23, 1930, his wife Silveria passed away. Cajal still lived with his daughter Fe, who was a widow. Since then, he spent his autumns in Zaragoza, at his brother Pedro\u2019s house on Costa Street, where his sisters looked after him.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Starting in 1894, Santiago Ram\u00f3n y Cajal became an increasingly popular figure in Spain. The Moscow Prize and, subsequently, the Nobel Prize amplified and broadened that recognition, which until then had been limited to academic spheres, the press and official circles. But it was upon his retirement in 1922 that, in his own words, \u201ca deluge of honours and tributes\u201d came his way. In his last years, he remained active, although his pace gradually declined.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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In 1933, he published his work \u00bfNeuronismo o reticularismo? Las pruebas objetivas de la unidad anat\u00f3mica de las c\u00e9lulas nerviosas<\/em> (Neuron theory or reticular theory? Objective evidence of the anatomical unity of nerve cells), which is considered his scientific legacy. He died the following year, on October 17, 1934, at the age of eighty-two, at a tragic moment in Spanish history, and his funeral was perhaps the last time that people who would later clash dramatically in the Civil War gathered together around a shared symbol.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Santiago Ram\u00f3n y Cajal in Mariano Benlliure\u2019s studio, posing for the model of the statue that will stand at the top of the staircase in the University of Zaragoza\u2019s Paraninfo, 1922<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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On October 1, at the start of the academic year, a plaster model was installed at its current location, which was later removed to make way for the final marble sculpture. Cajal was unable to attend the launch event, but he sent two texts to be read aloud. In February 1925, the final statue was unveiled at a ceremony presided over by King Alfonso XIII. The University Archives hold a large collection of documents and correspondence related to this tribute.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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