Sweden

1. Sweden Canary Islands

2. Santiago Ramón y Cajal

3. Cajal was born on May 1,1852 in Petilla de Aragón, Spain. He received the 1906 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Ramón y Cajal's investigations of the microscopic structure of the brain were original: he is considered by many to be the father of modern neuroscience. He was skilled at drawing, and hundreds of his illustrations of brain cells are still used for educational purposes today. He died on October 18, 1934 in Madrid, Spain.

4. Margarita Salas Falgueras

5. She is a Spanish biochemistry who was born in 1938. Degree in Chemical Sciences from the Complutense University of Madrid. She also worked with Severo Ochoa in U.S. Her husband is also a scientist, Eladio Viñuela, Both developed the Spanish research in biochemistry and molecular biology. In 2007 discovers a biotechnological tool to create min proteins of medical applications. In future it will be important to prevent the development of AIDS (HIV).

6. Juan Negrín López

7. Juan Negrín was born in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, February 3, 1892 and died in Paris, November 12, 1956. He was a Spanish physician and politician,Prime Minister between 1937 and 1945. Negrín came from a religious middle-class family. He was qualified as a doctor in Germany and later he became a professor of physiology at the Complutense University of Madrid at the age of 29. Negrín spoke English, French, German and a little Russian, besides his native Spanish.

8. Isaac Peral y Caballero

9. Peral was born on June 1, 1851 in Cartagena, Spain. Isaac Peral was officer of the "Cuerpo General de la Armada", where he made a career as officer in different warships. Peral was also teacher in the Army. The Peral submarine was first conceived on 20 September 1884, when Lieutenant Isaac Peral wrote a paper which would become his ”Project for a submarine torpedoboat“ He died on May 22, 1895 in Berlin, Germany.

10. Juan de la Cierva

11. Juan de la Cierva and Codorníu was born in Spain on September 21, 1895 and died in the UK on December 9, 1936. He was a Spanish inventor, aeronautical engineer, civil engineer and aviator. His most famous accomplishment was the invention in 1920 of the Autogiro, a single-rotor type of aircraft (autogyro).

12. Luis Rojas-Marcos de la Viesca

13. Marcos was born on August 2, 1968 in Sevilla, Spain. In 1968, immediately graduating from Sevilla University Medical School, he emigrated to New York City where he lives. He was named Commissioner of the New York City Department of Mental Health, Mental Retardation and Alcoholism Services. In 2010 the Spanish government awarded him the Medal of the Arts and Literature.