Pío del Río Hortega

Discovered Microglia (1882-1945) · Spain · Doctors · Died at 63

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Pío del Río Hortega was a Spanish neuroscientist who first distinguished microglia from the other brain cell types.

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Grand Cross of the Order of Civil Health1986

Honorary doctor of the University of Oxford

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