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Wilder Penfield honoured with Google Doodle

You don鈥檛 have to be a brain surgeon to know why we鈥檙e celebrating Wilder Penfield鈥檚 127th birthday today, but it doesn鈥檛 hurt! Penfield was once considered 鈥渢he greatest living Canadian鈥 for his trailblazing advancements in mapping the brain and brain surgery techniques to treat epilepsy.

A Rhodes scholar trained at Oxford and Princeton, Penfield believed studying medicine was 鈥渢he best way to make the world a better place.鈥 Penfield later became Montreal鈥檚 first neurosurgeon and established the Montreal Neurological Institute in 1934.聽

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