Brenda Milner

Brenda Milner, CC, GOQ, FRS, FRSC (born 15 July 1918) is a Canadian neuroscientist who has contributed extensively to the research literature on various topics in the field of clinical neuropsychology. Born in Manchester, England, Milner received her undergraduate degree at the University of Cambridge in 1939, and her Ph.D. degree under Donald Hebb at McGill University in 1952. She joined Wilder Penfield at the Montreal Neurological Institute in 1950 and published landmark papers with Penfield and William Beecher Scoville in 1957 and 1958. She was the Dorothy J. Killam Professor of Psychology, Montreal Neurological Institute and Department of Neurology & Neurosurgery at McGill University. Milner was a pioneer in the field of...