Harvey Williams Cushing

1869 - 1939

country of citizenship: United States of America

languages spoken, written or signed: English

educated at: Harvard Medical School, Yale University

occupation: physician, neuroscientist, neurosurgeon, academic, university teacher, neurologist, writer, biographer, surgeon, medical historian, bibliophile

award received: Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography, Lister Medal, Sterling Professor, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Foreign Member of the Royal Society

Harvey Williams Cushing (April 8, 1869 – October 7, 1939) was an American neurosurgeon, pathologist, writer, and draftsman. A pioneer of brain surgery, he was the first exclusive neurosurgeon and the first person to describe Cushing's disease. He wrote a biography of physician William Osler in three volumes. Source: Wikipedia (en)