Once described as the “greatest living Canadian”, neurosurgeon Wilder Penfield would have been 127 years old on January 26. Penfield is recognised for his advances in mapping the brain and ...

Wilder Penfield was born in Spokane, Washington, and spent much of his youth in Hudson, Wisconsin. When he was 13, in 1904, his mother learned of the newly established Rhodes Scholarship.

Wilder Penfield, a pioneering brain surgeon, mapped the motor cortex using mild electric current. Later, around 1870, Hitzig teamed up with another doctor, Gustav Fritsch. Setting up a makeshift ...

Wilder Penfield was born in Spokane, Washington, and spent much of his youth in Hudson, Wisconsin. When he was 13, in 1904, his mother learned of the newly established Rhodes Scholarship. "This is ...