Pío del Río Hortega

In 1913, he was funded to study research histology in France and Germany but the outbreak of war between them forced him to return to Spain.[1] His discoveries in 1920 created issues with Ramón y Cajal, who led the lab, as he had earlier won the Nobel Prize.By 1931 del Río Hortega was leading Spain's cancer institute, but he left the country when the civil war broke out in 1936.[1] War spreading across Europe found him in Paris at the Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital before he went to the University of Oxford to work with the British neurosurgeon Hugh Cairns.In Buenos Aires he developed a fruitful scientific school with former disciples who worked with him in Europe (Moisés Polak,[6] Washington Buño[7]) and new ones, including chronologically the last one, Amanda Pellegrino de Iraldi.
Valladolid Science MuseumPortillo, ValladolidBuenos AiresSpanishmicrogliaUniversity of MadridFranceGermanyhistologistSantiago Ramón y CajalWilder Penfieldneuronsoligodendrogliasilver carbonateNobel Prizecivil warPitié-Salpêtrière HospitalUniversity of OxfordHugh CairnsWorld War IIArgentinaneoplasm