Pío del Río Hortega

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

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

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