- Neurobiologist who championed the life and work of Matt Henson who was a member of Robert Peary's expedition to the Pole.
- He traveled to Greenland to track down descendants of Matthew Henson and Robert Peary. In 1988 he arranged for Henson's body to be re-interred next to Peary at Arlington National Cemetery. Descendants of both explorers, from the United States and Greenland, attended the ceremony.
- He joined the Harvard faculty in 1970 and later became a neurology professor at Harvard Medical School.
- He graduated from Tennessee State University, a historically black school, and earned a doctorate in neurobiology from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, OH. He later received another doctorate from the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden.
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