Wilder Penfield: advisors and students

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Wilder Penfield

Canadian neurosurgeon, college football player and coach1891 to 1976

Wikidata names Charles Scott Sherrington, Harvey Williams Cushing, and Otfrid Foerster as doctoral advisors and names Harvey Williams Cushing and Otfrid Foerster as teachers. Linked to Wikidata, Wikipedia, and 4 other registers.

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Advisors on Wikidata3

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Charles Scott Sherrington
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Harvey Williams Cushing
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Otfrid Foerster

Teachers and mentors2

Wikidata's "student of" and "student" statements: a line of training beside the lineage, never a thesis supervision and never counted with one.

a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Harvey Williams Cushing
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Otfrid Foerster

The line above and below4 steps

The advisors of their advisors, four steps up at most, in the thesis records and on Wikidata, each kind marked; a person in both is listed once.

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stated by WikidataCharles Scott Sherringtonstated by WikidataHarvey Williams Cushingstated by WikidataOtfrid Foerster
2 steps up
stated by WikidataJohn Newport Langleystated by WikidataMichael Foster
3 steps up
stated by WikidataThomas Henry Huxleystated by WikidataWilliam Sharpey
4 steps up
stated by WikidataThomas Wharton Jones

Education and career4

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records. Each place opens its Wikidata item.

until 1913
Princeton University
studied
from 1928
McGill University
worked
undated
Merton College
studied
undated
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
studied

At a glance

known as: surgeon, neuroscientist, neurosurgeon, university teacher, neurologist, writer
fields: neurosurgery
degrees: doctorate
awards: Rhodes Scholarship, 1914, Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, 1943, honorary doctorate at the Laval University, 1951, Flavelle Medal, 1951, doctor honoris causa from the University of Paris, 1954, Lister Medal, 1960, F.N.G. Starr Award, 1965, Otfrid Foerster Medal, 1966, Canadian Medical Hall of Fame, 1994, Order of Merit, Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George, Companion of the Order of Canada, Honorary doctor of the University of Ottawa, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Guggenheim Fellowship, honorary doctorate from the McGill University, Fellow of the Royal Society, honorary doctorate from the University of British Columbia, Person of National Historic Significance
member of: Royal Society of London, from 1943, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Russian Academy of Sciences, Académie Nationale de Médecine, National Academy of Sciences, from 1953, Polish Academy of Sciences, American Philosophical Society, from 1950
Wikipedia: in 27 languages

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Elsewhere6

identity

stated by WikidataWikipediaWilder Penfield
stated by WikidataWikidataQ711394
stated by WikidataVIAF44378083
stated by WikidataGND137431198
stated by WikidataIdRef070405603
stated by WikidataISNI0000000108931051

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Read on 27 October 2026. A citation names the day the record was read, not a version.

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@misc{academicancestry_Q711394,
  author = {{Academic Ancestry}},
  title = {{Wilder Penfield: advisors and students}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://academicancestry.org/person/Q711394},
  note = {read on 2026-10-27}
}

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Academic Ancestry. (2026, October 27). Wilder Penfield: Advisors and students [Read on 2026-10-27]. https://academicancestry.org/person/Q711394