...Order of Canada NewSearch Wilder G. Penfield, C.C., O.M., C.M.G., M.D., LL.D., F.R.S. Full Name Honour Received Residence Wilder G. Penfield, C.C., O.M., C.M.G., M.D., LL.D., F.R.S. C.... www.gg.ca/honours/search-recherche/honours-desc.asp?lang=...
The definitive Wikipedia entry for Wilder Penfield. Wikipedia is the biggest multilingual free-content encyclopedia on the Internet. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilder_Penfield
Doctor Penfield is always referred to as a Canadian, but in fact he was born in Spokane Washington in 1891. His early years, until his early twenties, were spent in various states where he interned at Johns Hopkins and became a Rhodes scholar as well. B www.oxblog.com/article/13/wilder-penfield-md--phd-the-ult...
Medical Pioneer. A native of Spokane, Washington, he was one of Canada's greatest doctors. Known as 'the greatest living Canadian' during his lifetime, Penfield was educated at Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey, Oxford University in Oxford, www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=11067957
Penfield's syndrome is characterized by attacks of epileptic seizures caused by a tumour pressing on the hypothalamus, accompanied by vegetative manifestations. ... Wilder Graves Penfield was the son of Charles Samuel Penfield (1858-1913), a medical do www.whonamedit.com/doctor.cfm/3099.html
"Wilder Penfield was not only a great surgeon and a great scientist, he was an even greater human being." ... Wilder Penfield , Professor of Neurology and Neurosurgery at McGill, revolutionized our understanding of the human brain. With help from coll www.mcgill.ca/about/history/pioneers/penfield/
During World War I, in 1916, he was traveling on a ship which was torpedoed in the English Channel. He was reported dead and an obituary for him was actually published in an American newspaper, but he survived and received medical care in a hospital in Do www.imdb.com/name/nm0671802/
