“…In its classrooms you could hear the metaphysics classes of José Ortega y Gasset, the philology classes of Ramón Ménendez Pidal, the art history classes of Elías Tormo, the medieval history classes of Claudio Sánchez-Albornoz, the socialist leader's logic classes Julián Besteiro, the history of the language of Américo Castro, the philosophy of the young José Gaos or the ethics of his dean Manuel García Morente, along with those who also taught the minister Domingo Barnés, the Arabist Miguel Asín Palacios, to the Paleographer Agustín Millares Carlo, the pedagogue Luis de Zulueta, or the paleontologist Hugo Obermaier, among others. …”

“…Even less recognised co-workers and disciples of Cajal (his brother Pedro Ramón y Cajal, Domingo Sánchez, the neurologist Rodríguez-Lafora... protagonised discoveries that are consolidated scientific truths today). …”