# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/wilder-penfield
# Generated: 2026-09-01T18:48:30.222Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/wilder-penfield"
name: "Wilder Penfield"
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description: "Wilder Graves Penfield was an American-Canadian neurosurgeon. He expanded brain surgery's methods and techniques, including mapping the functions of various regions of the brain such as the cortical homunculus. His scientific contributions on neural stimulation expand across a variety of topics including hallucinations, illusions, dissociation and déjà vu. Penfield devoted much of his thinking to mental processes, including contemplation of whether there was any scientific basis for the existence of the human soul."
tagline: "Canadian neurosurgeon, college football player and coach (1891–1976)"
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birthDate: "1891-01-26"
deathDate: "1976-04-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump