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JEFFERSON, Sir Geoffrey (1886 – 1961)

1886 – 1961

2 entries in the GMN corpus.

1925 CE

#3017

Report of a successful case of embolectomy.

First successful embolectomy in Britain.

1949 CE

#14289

The mind of mechanical man.

Jefferson’s paper on the differences between electronic computers and the human brain inspired Alan Turing to respond with his famous paper, “Computing machinery and intelligence” (1950), which intro…