Phineas Gage

Phineas Gage

male, deceased (1860)
Phineas P. Gage (1823 - May 21, 1860) was a railroad construction foreman who suffered a traumatic brain injury when a tamping iron accidentally...
Sam Harris

Sam Harris

male, 42 years old
Sam Harris (born 1967) is an American writer. He is the author of "The End of Faith" (2004), which was inspired by the September 11, 2001 attacks,...
Francis Harry Compton Crick

Francis Harry Compton Crick

male, deceased (2004) (Northampton)
Francis Harry Compton Crick was born on June 8th, 1916, at Northampton, England, being the elder child of Harry Crick and Annie Elizabeth Wilkins ....
Christof Koch

Christof Koch

male, 53 years old
Christof Koch is an American neuroscientist educated in North Africa and Europe. He received a PhD in nonlinear information processing from the Max...
Jeff Hawkins

Jeff Hawkins

male, 52 years old
Jeff Hawkins (born June 1, 1957 in Huntington, New York) is the founder of Palm Computing (where he invented the Palm Pilot) and Handspring (where...
Francisco Varela

Francisco Varela

male, deceased (2001)
Francisco Javier Varela GarcĂ­a was a Chilean biologist, philosopher and neuroscientist who, together with his teacher Humberto Maturana, is best k...
Matt Ridley

Matt Ridley

male, 51 years old
Matthew (Matt) Ridley (born February 7, 1958 at Newcastle upon Tyne) is an English science writer. He received a doctorate in zoology from the...
Jean-Pierre Changeux

Jean-Pierre Changeux

male, 73 years old
Jean-Pierre Changeux is a French neuroscientist, who researched many different areas of biology in his life, from the structure and function of...
Chris Frith

Chris Frith

male
Chris Frith (born March 16, 1942, United Kingdom -) is a psychologist working at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging at University College...
Read Montague

Read Montague

male
Read Montague is an American neuroscientist and popular science author. He holds a professorship at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas,...