# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-beecher-scoville
# Generated: 2026-08-14T13:17:23.043Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-beecher-scoville"
name: "William Beecher Scoville"
slug: "william-beecher-scoville"
description: "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."
tagline: "American neurosurgeon (1906-1984)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/William_Beecher_Scoville.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Doctors"
  slug: "doctors"
profileType:
  name: "Doctor"
  slug: "doctor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1906-01-13"
deathDate: "1984-02-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.64
  momentum:             0.8759124087591239
  historical:           5.887726666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "William Beecher Scoville"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Scoville"
    title: "William Scoville"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Beecher_Scoville"
    title: "William Beecher Scoville"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump