Wilder Penfield

Born in the United States, DR. WILDER PENFIELD studied at Princeton, Johns Hopkins, and Oxford universities, and began his scientific and clinical career at Columbia and at the Presbyterian Hospital of New York City. He has been a citizen of Canada since 1934 and was the director of the Montreal Neurological Institute for twenty-five years. In the autumn of 1962 he and his wife spent a month on the mainland of China as the guests of the Chinese Medical Association. Here are his impressions.

Born in the United States, DR. WILDER PENFIELDstudied at Princeton, Johns Hopkins, and Oxford universities, and began his scientific and clinical career at Columbia and at the Presbyterian Hospital of New York City. He has been a citizen of Canada since 1934 and became the first director of the Montreal Neurological Institute of McGill University. In addition to his reputation as a scientist and neurosurgeon, he is the author of four books, the most recent of which,THE SECOND CAREER,was published in January by Little, Brown.