Paul Bucy
Paul Clancy Bucy [ pɔːl ˈklæːnsi ˈbjuːsi ] (born November 13, 1904 in Hubbard, Iowa , † September 22, 1992 in Tryon, North Carolina ) was an American neurologist and neurosurgeon .
Bucy studied medicine at the University of Iowa . He was then an assistant to Percival Bailey at the University of Chicago . In the 1930s he went on a study trip to Gordon Morgan Holmes in London and to Otfrid Foerster in Breslau.
1933–38 Assistant Professor, 1938–41 Associate Professor and 1941–54 Professor of Neurology and Neurosurgery at the University of Illinois in Chicago. 1954–72 Professor of Surgery and 1962–72 Chairman of Neurosurgery at Northwestern University Medical School in Chicago and 1974–83 Professor of Neurology at the Bowman Gray School of Medicine in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
The Klüver-Bucy syndrome , which the German-American neuropsychologist Heinrich Klüver described with him in 1937, is named after him.
Works
- The precentral motor cortex . Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press, 1944 (2nd ed. 1949)
- Neurosurgical giants: feet of clay and iron / ed. Paul C. Bucy. New York [u. a.]: Elsevier, 1985. ISBN 0-444-00939-6 .
- Modern neurosurgical giants / ed. Paul C. Bucy. New York [u. a.]: Elsevier, 1986. ISBN 0-444-01083-1 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Klüver H, Bucy PC. "Psychic blindness" and other symptoms following bilateral temporal lobectomy in rhesus monkeys. Am J Physiol 1937; 119: 352-353.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bucy, Paul |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bucy, Paul Clancy (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American neuropathologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 13, 1904 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hubbard, Iowa |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 22, 1992 |
| Place of death | Tryon, North Carolina |