William Beecher Scoville, Date of Birth, Date of Death

William Beecher Scoville

American neurosurgeon

Date of Birth: 13-Jan-1906

Date of Death: 25-Feb-1984

Profession: surgeon, neurosurgeon

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

William Beecher Scoville (January 13, 1906 – February 25, 1984) was a neurosurgeon at Hartford Hospital.
Scoville established the Department of Neurosurgery at Connecticut's Hartford Hospital in 1939.
He performed surgery on Henry Gustav Molaison in 1953 to relieve epilepsy that led to damage of Molaison's hippocampus and left him with a memory disorder.