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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Wilder Penfield has received more than 1,105,341 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Wilder Penfield is the 261st most popular biologist (up from 262nd in 2019), the 2,745th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,638th in 2019) and the 52nd most popular American Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Wilder Penfield ranks 261 out of 841. Before him are James Edward Smith, Alphonse Pyramus de Candolle, Hermann Schlegel, Jakob Friedrich Ehrhart, Johann Hermann, and Eduard Rüppell. After him are Alexander Georg von Bunge, Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle, René Lesson, Stephan Endlicher, Clair Cameron Patterson, and Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1891, Wilder Penfield ranks 79. Before him are Olga Khokhlova, Charles Munch, Henry Morgenthau Jr., Bruno Loerzer, Johannes R. Becher, and Jüri Lossmann. After him are Evgeny Pashukanis, Werner Lorenz, Frederick, Prince of Hohenzollern, Alfred Meyer, Franz Alexander, and Julius Raab. Among people deceased in 1976, Wilder Penfield ranks 86. Before him are Zhang Wentian, Paul Morand, Tommy Bolin, Sal Mineo, Karl Schäfer, and Paul Strand. After him are Freddie King, Mohammed Ben Aarafa, Hans von Obstfelder, Alexander Lippisch, Josef Sudek, and Gottfried von Cramm.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Wilder Penfield ranks 2,745 out of 18,182. Before him are Douglas Trumbull (1942), Neilia Hunter Biden (1942), Joseph Valachi (1904), Royal Rife (1888), John Milnor (1931), and J. Presper Eckert (1919). After him are Freddie King (1934), Edgar Snow (1905), Tracy Morgan (1968), Ronald Lauder (1944), Jill St. John (1940), and Fritz Leiber (1910).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, Wilder Penfield ranks 52. Before him are Bruce Beutler (1957), H. Robert Horvitz (1947), Craig Venter (1946), James Dwight Dana (1813), Martin Chalfie (1947), and David Julius (1955). After him are Clair Cameron Patterson (1922), Carol W. Greider (1961), Joel Asaph Allen (1838), Phillip Allen Sharp (1944), Gregory Goodwin Pincus (1903), and James Rothman (1950).

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