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William Beecher Scoville

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American neurosurgeon (1906-1984)

United StatesDoctorsLived 1906 to 1984 · aged 78
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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.

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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.

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Lived 1906 to 1984 · aged 78
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