Milner, who is still actively working at McGill University, Montreal, Canada, responsible for a number of major discoveries in memory or memory. "It's a big surprise for me," he said, as quoted by Fox News.
Milner began his career tells of his love of mathematics. He found obesesinya to science while studying experimental psychology at the University of Cambridge in the late 1930s. "The memory or the memory is not a popular topic when I began intense person by his," he said.
After showing his talent check a fighter pilot during World War II, he joined the Institute of Psychology, University of Montreal, Canada, around 1944. However, not until 1950, he anchored to McGill University, and began his doctoral studies at the Montreal Neurological Institute (MNI).
Milner considered the originator of neuropsychology, the disciplines that examine the relationship between brain structure and psychological behavior. He, too, who developed a type of surgical procedure to help treat patients with severe epilepsy.
"I began to explore about the memory because many patients have problems with memory. While many patients come in, and said that problems with memory, you can not say, 'Oh, I'm not interested, I did not learn it'. But, it must be said, 'you really have a memory problem? Let's see '. "
'Nobel' Meister Greengard Prize Special WanitaPearl an annual award given for outstanding women scientists in the world. Initiated by a Rockefeller University professor who is also Nobel Laureate, Paul Greengard.
The idea came after Greengard feel discriminated against women in scientific fields. He perpetuated the name of his mother, Pearl Meister, as a form of sacrifice for the struggle against death in childbirth.
"My mother died giving birth to me. From everything I hear, he's a great woman. Only, he did not have the opportunity to build a career, because he was still very young," says Greengard, who oversee the awards over the last eight years .