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Born April 4, 1835 • England
Died October 7, 1911 (aged 76) • London • England
Subjects Of Study brain • disease • epilepsy • jacksonian epilepsy • nervous system • speech disorder • spinal cord • wound

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Vladimir Bekhterev
Russian psychiatrist
Jean-Martin Charcot
Jean-Martin Charcot
French neurologist
Jean-Baptiste Bouillaud
French physician
Robert Remak
German scientist
Carl Wernicke
German neurologist
Duchenne, Guillaume-Benjamin-Amand
Duchenne de Boulogne
French neurologist
Sir Victor Horsley, c. 1910
Sir Victor Horsley
British surgeon
Ben Carson
Ben Carson
American neurosurgeon and politician
Torsten Wiesel
Swedish biologist
D. Carleton Gajdusek
American physician
Egas Moniz
António Egas Moniz
Portuguese neurologist
David Hunter Hubel
American biologist
Roger Wolcott Sperry
American biologist
Charles-Édouard Brown-Séquard
Charles-Édouard Brown-Séquard
French physiologist
Auguste-Henri Forel
Swiss psychiatrist
Théodule-Armand Ribot
French psychologist
Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon
British author, philosopher, and statesman
Sir Charles Sherrington.
Sir Charles Scott Sherrington
British physiologist
Sir William Maddock Bayliss
British physiologist
George Redmayne Murray
British physician