Sir Geoffrey Jefferson CBE FRS[1] (10 April 1886 – 29 January 1961) was a British neurologist and pioneering neurosurgeon.
On the outbreak of World War I, he returned to Europe and worked at the Anglo-Russian Hospital in Petrograd, Russia, and then with the Royal Army Medical Corps in France.
[6] The corresponding Lister Oration, given at the Royal College of Surgeons of England, was not delivered until 1949, and was titled 'The Mind of Mechanical Man'.
[8] In 1956 he presented the Sir Hugh Cairns Memorial Lecture at the Society of British Neurological Surgeons.
The University of Manchester also holds a significant collection of Jefferson's patient files, numbering approximately 3,500, which are as yet uncatalogued.