Who created the first x-ray in the US?
Arthur Willis Goodspeed at the University of Pennsylvania 1890 predating Roentgen by 5 years.
Only after Roentgen's discovery, did they realize the explanation for the phenomenon they observed.
What did the Russo-Japanese War have to do with our understanding of visual fields?
See this reference from Scientific American Sept 1988 (when I was starting my neuro fellowship)
http://www.sciencecore.columbia.edu/demo/web/resources/readings/
http://www.sciencecore.columbia.edu/demo/web/resources/readings/cortex.pdf
(under construction)
I heard about this article from a neuropathologist. Neat stuff.
"The brain as a sieve"