[In Context] Raoul-Michel May, a pioneer in nerve grafting

Raoul-Michel May (1900–68) was born in Mexico to French parents. He earned a PhD in zoology from Harvard University (Cambridge, MA, USA) in 1924. In 1925, he moved to Madrid, Spain, to spend a year working with Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852–1934), during which time he began translating to English Ramón y Cajal's book Degeneración y Regeneración del Sistema Nervioso.1 Subsequently, May obtained a doctorate in natural sciences in Paris, France, in 1927, studying transplantation of the eye and olfactory organ in frog embryos, and earned his Doctor of Medicine degree in 1939.