Pío del Río Hortega

Pío del Río Hortega
Statue of Pío del Río Hortega outside Valladolid Science Museum
Born5 May 1882
Portillo, Valladolid
Died1 June 1945 (aged 63)
Buenos Aires
NationalitySpanish
Known fordiscovering microglia

Pío del Río Hortega (1882 – 1945) was a Spanish neuroscientist who discovered microglia.

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