Wilder Penfield
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Canadian neurosurgeon, college football player and coach (1891–1976)
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Vinony's link graph records 432 inbound references to Wilder Penfield, and connects out to neurosurgery, Montreal and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?.
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Vinony files it under 1891 births, 1976 deaths and 20th-century American psychologists.
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- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Canada
- Place of birth
- Spokane
- Place of death
- Montréal-Nord
- Occupation
- writer
- Educated at
- Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
- Employer
- McGill University
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Academic degree
- doctorate
- Doctoral advisor
- Otfrid Foerster
- Student of
- Harvey Williams Cushing
- Field of work
- neurosurgery
- Image
- Wilder Penfield.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1891-01-26
- date of death
- 1976-04-05
- member of
- American Philosophical Society
- Commons gallery
- Wilder Penfield
- nominated for
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- cause of death
- stomach cancer
- manner of death
- natural causes
- Commons category
- Wilder Penfield
- name in native language
- Wilder Graves Penfield
- writing language
- English language
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