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. The bombing of Britain by Germany in World War II drove him on to Argentina . His escape was funded by the Spanish Cultural Institute, who continued to support him as he created his own laboratory in 1942.  Río Hortega died in Buenos Aires on 1 June 1945 from a malignant neoplasm.
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. The bombing of Britain by Germany in World War II drove him on to Argentina in August 1940. His move was funded by the Spanish Cultural Institute, who continued to support him as he created his own laboratory in 1942. In Buenos Aires he developed a fruitful scientific school with former disciples who worked with him in Europe (Moisés Polak, Washington Buño) and new ones, including the last one, Amanda Pellegrino de URL Río Hortega died in Buenos Aires on 1 June 1945 from a malignant neoplasm.
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In Buenos Aires he developed a fruitful scientific school with former disciples who worked with him in Europe (Moisés Polak, Washington Buño) and new ones, including the last one, Amanda Pellegrino de URL