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Brenda Milner

1918 - Today

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Brenda Milner (née Langford; born 15 July 1918) is a British-Canadian neuropsychologist who has contributed extensively to the research literature on various topics in the field of clinical neuropsychology. Milner is a professor in the Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery at McGill University and a professor of Psychology at the Montreal Neurological Institute. As of 2020, she holds more than 25 honorary degrees and she continued to work in her nineties. Her work covers many aspects of neuropsychology including her lifelong interest in the involvement of the temporal lobes in episodic memory. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Brenda Milner is the 163rd most popular psychologist (up from 174th in 2019), the 2,473rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,337th in 2019) and the 12th most popular British Psychologist.

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, Brenda Milner ranks 163 out of 235Before her are Jacques-Alain Miller, Victor Skumin, Aleksei N. Leontiev, James J. Gibson, Stanley Schachter, and Walter Mischel. After her are Harry Harlow, Arnold Gesell, Henri Nouwen, Emma Eckstein, Rensis Likert, and Dimitri Uznadze.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1918, Brenda Milner ranks 144Before her are Abraham Robinson, Joseph Wiseman, Mickey Spillane, Émile Derlin Zinsou, Gottfried von Einem, and Suzanne Flon. After her are Venetia Burney, Hendrik C. van de Hulst, Jelle Zijlstra, Iryna Melnykova, Abdul Haris Nasution, and Martin Lundström.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Brenda Milner ranks 2,474 out of 8,785Before her are John Robertson (1953), John Aubrey (1626), Divina Galica (1944), John Oliver (1977), Eddie Irvine (1965), and John Smeaton (1724). After her are Edward Colston (1636), Shakin' Stevens (1948), John Illsley (1949), William Hudson (1730), Siegfried Sassoon (1886), and Demetrios Petrokokkinos (1878).

Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among psychologists born in United Kingdom, Brenda Milner ranks 12Before her are R. D. Laing (1927), Charles Spearman (1863), Havelock Ellis (1859), William McDougall (1871), Frederic Bartlett (1886), and Ernest Jones (1879). After her are Ronald Fairbairn (1889), Anne Treisman (1935), Robin Dunbar (1947), Richard Lynn (1930), Alan Baddeley (1934), and Simon Baron-Cohen (1958).