Wilder Penfield
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| Gender | Male |
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| Death | 49 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 |
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| 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.