To celebrate the 127th birthday of Dr. Wilder Penfield, the Montreal neurosurgeon and researcher, Google has doodled him onto their search page banner with an image of burnt toast and the brain. Penfield developed a groundbreaking surgical treatment for epilepsy which became known as the "Montreal procedure." McGill offered Penfield the opportunity to advance the treatment of epilepsy, "but at the same time, be able to do fundamental research," Dr. Richard Leblanc, an MNI neurosurgeon, told CBC Montreal's Daybreak. Wilder Penfield remembered with @Google Doodle on his 127th birthday. But his name lives on in Montreal: Doctor Penfield Avenue, the eastbound street on the flank of Mount Royal, was named for him in 1978.

Source: CBC News January 26, 2018 19:52 UTC