Hudson Hoagland

Hudson Hoagland (December 5, 1899 – March 4, 1982) was an American neuroscientist, president of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, from 1961 to 1964.

[1] Originally from Rockaway, New Jersey, he graduated from Columbia University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Harvard University, and was a Guggenheim fellow.

[2] [3] His scientific specialty was electroencephalography.

In 1985, he co-founded the Worcester Foundation, now merged with the University of Massachusetts Medical School.

The foundation funds biomedical research at Chan Medical School, a foundation that developed the birth control pill.