BIOLOGIST

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 1,137,142 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Wilder Penfield is the 340th most popular biologist (down from 260th in 2019), the 3,143rd most popular biography from United States (down from 2,738th in 2019) and the 61st most popular American Biologist.

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  • 24

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  • 5.11

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  • 2.80

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Wilder Penfield ranks 340 out of 1,097. Before him are Craig Venter, Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov, Esther Lederberg, Jacob Christian Schäffer, David Bruce, and Carl Sigismund Kunth. After him are Carl Ludwig Blume, Georg Franz Hoffmann, Abraham Trembley, Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel, François-Alphonse Forel, and Andrew Fire.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1891, Wilder Penfield ranks 101. Before him are Maksim Bahdanovič, Alfred Meyer, Danilo Ilić, Julius Raab, Oskar Kummetz, and Prince Constantine Constantinovich of Russia. After him are R. Norris Williams, Alfred Wünnenberg, Béla Imrédy, Ahmad bin Yahya, Frederick, Prince of Hohenzollern, and Abraham Fraenkel. Among people deceased in 1976, Wilder Penfield ranks 98. Before him are Josef Sudek, Grégoire Kayibanda, Oscar Bonavena, Tommy Bolin, Evert Taube, and Wilhelm Marschall. After him are Paul Robeson, Alexander Novikov, Marcel Broodthaers, Jack Cassidy, Karl Schäfer, and Mohammed Ben Aarafa.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Wilder Penfield ranks 3,143 out of 20,380. Before him are Allan Kaprow (1927), John B. Kelly Sr. (1889), Marie Tharp (1920), Victoria Woodhull (1838), Dean Rusk (1909), and Janet Jagan (1920). After him are Fred Rogers (1928), J. Presper Eckert (1919), Dabbs Greer (1917), Lindsey Buckingham (1949), John Cocke (1925), and Paul Robeson (1898).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, Wilder Penfield ranks 61. Before him are Gregory Goodwin Pincus (1903), Bruce Beutler (1957), Phillip Allen Sharp (1944), George Ord (1781), Craig Venter (1946), and Esther Lederberg (1922). After him are Andrew Fire (1959), Joel Asaph Allen (1838), Robert Gallo (1937), Brian Kobilka (1955), Martha Chase (1927), and Luther Burbank (1849).

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