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Freeman, Walter Jackson (1895–1972)| US neurosurgeon. For most of his career he was affiliated with George Washington University, St Louis where he introduced psychosurgery to the USA (1936). He took part in more than 2,800 lobotomies, which he continued to perform well into the 1960s. |
| He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The lobotomy procedure was largely discredited because of its severe side effects and it was replaced by drug therapy. |
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