Wade Marshall
American neuroscientist
Wade Marshall (1907–1972) was a neuroscientist, noted for his work along with Philip Bard on producing the first map of the somatotopic organization of the cerebral cortex while working at the Johns Hopkins University. He went from Johns Hopkins to work at the National Institutes of Health (NIMH), where, in 1954, he became the inaugural leader of the Laboratory of Neurophysiology at NIMH, a position he retained until his retirement. He was regarded as a pioneer in brain electrophysiology and became internationally known for mapping the somatosensory system of the cat and monkey and the visual cortex of the cat.
References
Kandel, E. R. (2007), In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind, New York: W. W. Norton & Company, ISBN 978-0-393-32937-7
"Wade H. Marshall Papers, 1926–1973", finding aid, Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library, UCLA, via the Online Archive of California, accessed 29 November 2025.
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