W. H. R. Rivers
English anthropologist and neurologist
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William Halse Rivers Rivers FRS FRAI was an English anthropologist, neurologist, ethnologist and psychiatrist known for treatment of First World War officers suffering shell shock, so they could be returned to combat. Wikipedia
Born: March 12, 1864, Chatham, United Kingdom
Died: June 4, 1922 (age 58 years), Cambridge, United Kingdom
Awards: Honorary M.A from the University of Cambridge, 1897; Croonian Lecturer, 1906; Royal Medal, 1915
Doctoral students: Charles Samuel Myers; William McDougall; John Layard; Robert H. Thouless; William James Perry
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