Wilder Graves Penfield was an American-Canadian neurosurgeon.
24 Facts About Wilder Penfield
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Wilder Penfield expanded brain surgery's methods and techniques, including mapping the functions of various regions of the brain such as the cortical homunculus.
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Wilder Penfield studied at Princeton University, where he was a member of Cap and Gown Club and played on the football team.
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Wilder Penfield was wounded in 1916 when the ferry he was aboard, the SS Sussex, was torpedoed.
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Wilder Penfield studied in Germany with Fedor Krause and Otfrid Foerster, as well as in New York City.
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Academic politics amongst the New York neurologists prevented its establishment in New York, so, in 1928, Wilder Penfield accepted an invitation from Sir Vincent Meredith to move to Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
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Wilder Penfield was unable to save his only sister, Ruth, who died from brain cancer, though complex surgery he performed added years to her life.
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Wilder Penfield was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1950 and retired ten years later in 1960.
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Wilder Penfield was a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences and the American Philosophical Society.
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Wilder Penfield was appointed to the Order of Merit in the 1953 New Year Honours list.
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Wilder Penfield turned his attention to writing, producing a novel as well as his autobiography No Man Alone.
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In 1960, the year he retired, Wilder Penfield was awarded the Lister Medal for his contributions to surgical science.
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Wilder Penfield delivered the corresponding Lister Oration, "Activation of the Record of Human Experience", at the Royal College of Surgeons of England on April 27,1961.
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Wilder Penfield died on April 5,1976, of abdominal cancer at Royal Victoria Hospital in Montreal.
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Wilder Penfield reported that stimulation of the temporal lobes could lead to vivid recall of memories.
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Wilder Penfield stressed that the "things that have been recorded are the things which once came within the spot-light of attention".
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Wilder Penfield had over 25 years of research using electrical stimulation to produce experiential hallucinations.
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Wilder Penfield's conclusions show that patients experience a range of hallucinations from simple to complex.
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Wilder Penfield was designated a National Historic Person in 1988 by the government of Canada.
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Wilder Penfield was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of the United Kingdom in 1943.
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Wilder Penfield building, one of John Abbott College's ten buildings, bears the name of the famous neurosurgeon.
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Wilder Penfield was the subject of a Google doodle on January 26,2018, marking the 127th anniversary of his birth.
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Wilder Penfield was awarded many honorary degrees in recognition of his medical career.
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Between his graduation from Princeton and his studies at Oxford, Wilder Penfield served as Princeton's head football coach for one season.