RESUMO
Santiago Ramón y Cajal is well-known for his work on histology and pathological anatomy, but his scientific restlessness led him to become involved in many other fields, on which his influence also left its mark. His reputation as a histologist has concealed the other disciplines in which he took an active part, particularly after he received the Nobel Prize for Medicine that he shared with Golgi in 1906. Ramón y Cajal was a true humanist who excelled in many fields, today considered as very different disciplines. In some cases, the role he played in the development of these other disciplines has not been studied in all its depth, although his foray into the field of photography has indeed been analysed, for example. More recently, his work as a psychologist has also been published, since Ramón y Cajal came to refute the psychoanalytic theory that Freud was spreading at that time. Less attention has been paid to his involvement in the development of other disciplines that at that time were also included in the field of Natural Sciences, such as Paleontology, Prehistory and Anthropology, and especially as a result of his position as director of the different institutions that he came to preside, especially after receiving the Nobel Prize in Medicine. This, then, is the objective of our contribution. Although he was most notable for his management as president of the Junta para la Ampliación de Estudios (Committee for Extension of Studies and Scientific Research- JAE), we should not forget that he was also president of the Spanish Society of Natural History, director of the Laboratory for Biological Research, and honorary president of the Spanish Society of Anthropology, Ethnography and Prehistory. In all these institutions he played an outstanding role
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