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Ben Carson
American neurosurgeon and politician

William Williams Keen
American brain surgeon

Harvey Williams Cushing
American neurosurgeon

Ernst von Bergmann
German surgeon

Fred H. Gage
American geneticist

John O’Keefe
British-American neuroscientist

Edvard I. Moser
Norwegian neuroscientist

May-Britt Moser
Norwegian neuroscientist

Michal Schwartz
Israeli neuroimmunologist

Torsten Wiesel
Swedish biologist

Jan Evangelista Purkinje
Czech physiologist

António Egas Moniz
Portuguese neurologist

Karl Lashley
American psychologist

Vladimir Bekhterev
Russian psychiatrist

Jacques Loeb
German biologist

David Hunter Hubel
American biologist

Walter Rudolf Hess
Swiss physiologist

Friedrich Gustav Jacob Henle
German pathologist

Marie-Jean-Pierre Flourens
French physiologist

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American biologist