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William Noordenbos (1910-1990) was a Dutch neurosurgeon whose contributions to the field of pain helped inaugurate the current era of research in pain mechanisms. Noordenbos was born in Utrecht, the Netherlands, on August 11, 1910, the third child and only son of a family prominent in medicine and science. His father was Willem Noordenbos, a general surgeon and later dean of the medical school at the University of Amsterdam, and his mother, Jacoba Cornelia Noordenbos-Kapteijn--the daughter of J. Kapteijn, a distinguished academic astronomer--was one of the first female doctors in the Netherlands.

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