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Wilder Penfield

1891 - 1976

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Wilder Graves Penfield (January 26, 1891 – April 5, 1976) 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. His scientific contributions on neural stimulation expand across a variety of topics including hallucinations, illusions, dissociation and déjà vu. Penfield devoted much of his thinking to mental processes, including contemplation of whether there was any scientific basis for the existence of the human soul. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Wilder Penfield is the 488th most popular biologist (down from 340th in 2019), the 4,265th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,143rd in 2019) and the 82nd most popular American Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Wilder Penfield ranks 488 out of 1,097. Before him are Lucien Quélet, Ivan Regen, Benedykt Dybowski, Lorenz Heister, Carl Chun, and Johannes Thiele. After him are Jan Svatopluk Presl, Zhores Medvedev, David Starr Jordan, Vladimir Demikhov, Giuseppe Acerbi, and Gabriel Bibron.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1891, Wilder Penfield ranks 130. Before him are Julio Baghy, Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov, Prince Constantine Constantinovich of Russia, Juan Yagüe, Zdeněk Fierlinger, and John W. McCormack. After him are Boris Iofan, Maksim Bahdanovič, Joe E. Brown, Earl Warren, Harold Jeffreys, and Francisco Lázaro. Among people deceased in 1976, Wilder Penfield ranks 110. Before him are Marguerite Laugier, Oscar Bonavena, Richard Hughes, Werner March, Juan José Torres, and Zdeněk Fierlinger. After him are Boris Iofan, Rosalind Russell, Helmut Kunz, Elihan Tore, Marcel Broodthaers, and Mukaghali Makatayev.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Wilder Penfield ranks 4,265 out of 20,380. Before him are Maurice McLoughlin (1890), John C. Reilly (1965), Carmen Electra (1972), Jack Nicklaus (1940), Kelly Craft (1962), and Brian Tyler (1972). After him are Anthony Franciosa (1928), Thomas Newman (1955), Bobby Kimball (1947), Edgar Lee Masters (1868), Chuck Billy (1962), and Lee Hazlewood (1929).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, Wilder Penfield ranks 82. Before him are Robert Weinberg (1942), Robert Gallo (1937), Luther Burbank (1849), Sewall Wright (1889), Florence Augusta Merriam Bailey (1863), and Robert Sapolsky (1957). After him are David Starr Jordan (1851), George Newbold Lawrence (1806), Mary Agnes Chase (1869), Nathaniel Lord Britton (1859), Joseph Leidy (1823), and Aldo Leopold (1887).

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