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...Graduate School of Education's annual William H. Burton lecture, Wilder Penfield, professor at the Montreal Neurological Institute, described years of experiments which imply that concepts and words are stored in different parts of the brain...
...Wilder Penfield of the Montreal Neurological Institute will deliver the William H. Burton Lecture on "The Stream of Consciousness: A Discussion of Neuronal Recordings and Recall" at 8 p.m. tonight in Lowell Lecture Hall...
...grimness and scarcity of life in China is sometimes brightened by exploits testifying to the ingenuity and dogged work of its citizens. Canada's Dr. Wilder Penfield, one of the world's top neurosurgeons, returned last week from Red China and told of a University of Shanghai medical team that built a heart-lung machine from scratch in 18 months. When they tested it with dogs, the animals died of air bubbles in the heart. The Chinese went back to work, guided only by articles in medical journals, and three years later came up with a far better...
...Moscow Hospital No. 50 that day last January was Lev Davidovich Landau, 54, one of the world's greatest physicists. "Dau" was no ordinary patient, and he got no ordinary care. His friends unabashedly called for help from the free world. Canada's famed retired Neurosurgeon Wilder Penfield flew from Montreal at a few hours' notice. The Moscow doctors had already opened Landau's skull, but could not be sure whether the major threat to his brain was a large blood mass or a multiplicity of hemorrhages. Should they operate further on Landau's brain...
...Sweden for next month's ceremonies. But the great physicist is in a Moscow hospital, his memory still partially gone, his health still seriously impaired by the skull fracture and the eleven other bone breaks he suffered in an automobile accident nine months ago. Canadian Neurosurgeon Wilder Penfield was flown in to join physicians from Russia, France and Czechoslovakia in the effort to keep Landau alive. For the Soviets hardly needed the Nobel committee to tell them the value of the man who not only helped make their first atom bomb, but has been an important part...