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Authorised form of namePenfield; Wilder Graves (1891 - 1976)
Dates1891 - 1976
Date of birth26 January 1891
Date of death05/04/1976
ActivityEducation:
MD, DSc (Oxon), FRCS
Honours:
CMG 1943; OM 1953; CC (Canada) 1967
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election18/03/1943
RSActivityLectures:
Ferrier 1947
SourceObituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1978 vol 24 pp 473-513, plate, by Sir John Eccles and William Feindel
References:
D C Martin, 'Visit by the Assistant Secretary to some North American Scientific Institutions' in NR 1952 vol 9 pp 356-364
Notes:
Ferrier Lecture delivered June 1946
CodeNA1959
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
EC/1943/13Penfield, Wilder Graves: certificate of election to the Royal Society
MM/18/74Letter from Charles Scott Sherrington to Ragnar Granit26 July 1947
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