Wilder Penfield
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Gender | Male |
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Death | 48 years ago |
Date of birth | January 26,1891 |
Zodiac sign | Aquarius |
Born | Spokane |
Washington | |
United States | |
Date of died | April 5,1976 |
Died | Royal Victoria Hospital |
Montreal | |
Canada | |
Children | Wilder Graves Penfield Jr. |
Amos Jefferson Penfield | |
Priscilla Penfield Chester | |
Ruth Mary Penfield Lewis | |
Job | Surgeon |
Education | The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine |
Princeton University | |
Merton College | |
Books | The Mystery of the Mind: A Critical Study of Consciousness and the Human Brain |
No Man Alone: A Surgeons Life | |
Speech and brain-mechanisms | |
Epilepsy and the Functional Anatomy of the Human Brain | |
The mystery of the mind | |
The Excitable Cortex in Conscious Man | |
Cytology & cellular pathology of the nervous system | |
Epileptic Seizure Patterns: A Study of the Localizing Value of Initial Phenomena in Focal Cortical Seizures | |
Spouse | Helen Kermott |
Parents | Charles Samuel Penfield |
Jean Penfield | |
Awards | Guggenheim Fellowship for Natural Sciences, US & Canada |
Date of Reg. | |
Date of Upd. | |
ID | 567680 |
Wilder Penfield Life story
Wilder Graves Penfield OM CC CMG FRS was an American-Canadian neurosurgeon. He expanded brain surgery's methods and techniques, including mapping the functions of various regions of the brain such as the cortical homunculus.