# William Beecher Scoville

> William Beecher Scoville was an American neurosurgeon at Hartford Hospital in Hartford, Connecticut. Scoville established the Department of Neurosurgery at Connecticut's Hartford Hospital in 1939. He performed surgery on Henry Gustav Molaison in 1953 to relieve epilepsy that damaged the hippocampus of both the right and left temporal lobes of Molaison's brain and left him with a memory disorder.

*American neurosurgeon (1906-1984)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Doctor ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631))
- **Category:** Doctors
- **Country:** United States
- **Born:** 1906-01-13
- **Died:** 1984-02-25
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

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## Fame
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## Sources
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- [William Scoville](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Scoville)
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