Manuel del Cerro (1931–2023)

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The Argentinian–American neurobiologist Manuel del Cerro (Fig. 1) was born on August 30, 1931 in Buenos Aires. He attended Colegio Nacional (BA/BS, 1951) and University of Buenos Aires (MD, 1958), where he studied under Mariano Di Fiore, author of the famous Atlas of Human Histology. Upon completing a 3-year residency in intensive care at Hospital de Clínicas José de San Martín, del Cerro was recruited by Eduardo De Robertis among the first group of ten research pupils who formed the skeleton crew of what would become the Institute of Cell Biology [1]. There he learned electron microscopy and differential ultracentrifugation as applied to nervous tissue.

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