The son of Spanish immigrants from the Province of León, more precisely from Cabreros del Río, Baró married the writer María Dhialma Tiberti.

He completed his Associate of Science in Chemistry degree at the Otto Krause Technical School in Buenos Aires, in 1945.

Afterward, he pursued his studies at Universidad de Buenos Aires from which he obtained a Bachelor of Science, followed by a PhD in Chemistry in 1961 at the Instituut voor Kernphysisch Onderzoek, in Amsterdam.

[citation needed] He was named Emeritus Researcher of the National Atomic Energy Commission in 2010, following 40 years of institutional work and reaching the rank of Director.

[3] He was also awararded a Doctor honoris causa in Radiochemistry from Higher University of San Andres, Bolivia, notably for his work in discovering new isotopes of ruthenium, rhodium, rhenium, tungsten, and osmium,[4][5] and for the development of a contrast agent for Magnetic Resonance Imaging during retirement.