Geoffrey Jefferson

Sir Geoffrey Jefferson (born April 10, 1886 in Stockton-on-Tees , † January 29, 1961 in Manchester ) was a leading British neurosurgeon in his time.

Jefferson studied medicine at the University of Manchester , with bachelor's degrees (BS and Bachelor of Medicine, MB) in 1909. In 1911 he became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons and in 1913 he received a Master's degree (MS) from the University of London (and its gold medal).

In 1914 he married and went to Canada with his wife in their hometown of Victoria, British Columbia , where he established himself as a surgeon. During the First World War he returned to Europe, where he first worked in the Anglo-Russian Hospital in Petrograd and then in France with the Royal Army Medical Corps (in the 14th General Hospital). His experience with gunshot wounds, including the head, aroused his interest in neurosurgery. After his return to Manchester, he published his war experience on fractures of the cervical vertebrae ( Jefferson fracture ) and gunshot wounds to the head. Initially he was a general surgeon at Salford Royal Hospital, but from 1934 he was exclusively a neurosurgeon at Manchester Royal Infirmary. In 1939 he became Professor of Neurosurgery at the University of Manchester on the first such chair in Great Britain.

In 1947 he was made a Fellow of the Royal Society and knighted as a Knight Bachelor in 1950 . In 1948 he received the Lister Medal . Inspired by the early computers ( Manchester Mark I ) installed in Manchester (by Alan Turing and others) , he chose Artificial Intelligence as the theme of the Lister Oration . In 1960 he received the Fedor Krause Medal .

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1. ↑ Knights and Dames at Leigh Rayment's Peerage
2. ↑ G. JEFFERSON: The mind of mechanical man. In: British medical journal. Volume 1, Number 4616, June 1949, pp. 1105-1110, PMID 18153422 , PMC 2050428 (free full text).