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Most Genius girls within the World - Wrinkles are spreading. Brenda Milner couldn't cowl previous who stepped on his ninety three years. However, it didn't stop him won prestigious awards in science, Pearl Meister Greengard Prize.

Milner, who till currently still actively acting at McGill University, Montreal, Canada, to blame for variety of major discoveries in memory or memory. "It's a giant surprise to me," he said, as quoted by Fox News.

Milner began his career tells of his love of arithmetic. He found obesesinya to science when finding out experimental psychology at the University of Cambridge within the late Thirties. "The memory or the memory isn't a well-liked topic once I started at it," he said. once showing his talent check a fighter pilot throughout World War II, he joined the Institute of Psychology, University of Montreal, Canada, around 1944. However, not till 1950, he anchored to McGill University, and started his doctoral studies at the Montreal Neurological Institute (MNI).

Milner considered the originator of neuropsychology, disciplines that examine the connection between brain structure and psychological behavior. He, too, who developed the kind of operation to assist treat patients with severe epilepsy.

"I began to explore concerning the memory as a result of several patients have issues with memory. When several patients come back, and said that issues with memory, you will not say, 'Oh, i am not interested, I didn't learn it'. But, to be able to say, ' you actually have a memory problem? let's have a look at'. "

Milner was selected through a rigorous judging jury consisting of ten scientists importantly, 5 of them Nobel laureates. people who receive this award sometimes have a good probability to receive alternative awards, together with the Nobel Prize.

He plans to donate the prize cash value U.S. $ a hundred thousand or concerning Rp900 million to The Brenda Milner Foundation. establishment that he wakes up from his personal savings for a career that routinely give postdoctoral fellowships within the field of cognitive neuroscience at the Montreal Neurological Institute.

'Nobel' for girls
Pearl Meister Greengard Prize is an annual award given for outstanding girls scientists within the world. Initiated by a Rockefeller University professor who is additionally Nobel Laureate, Paul Greengard.

The idea emerged once Greengard feel the discrimination against girls in scientific fields. He perpetuated the name of his mother, Pearl Meister, as a variety of sacrifice for the struggle against death in childbirth.

"My mother died giving birth to me. From everything I hear, he is a good girl. Only, he didn't have the chance to make a career, as a result of he was still terribly young," says Greengard, who oversee the awards over the last eight years.