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
