Paul Bucy (/ˈbjuːsi/; November 13, 1904 – September 22, 1992) was an American neurosurgeon and neuropathologist who was a native of Hubbard, Iowa.
In the early 1930s he traveled to Europe, and studied with Gordon Morgan Holmes (1876–1965) in London and Otfrid Foerster (1874–1941) in Breslau.
[2] Paul Bucy is remembered for his work with experimental psychologist Heinrich Klüver (1897-1979) involving the eponymous Klüver–Bucy syndrome, defined as a behavioral disorder caused by malfunction of the left and right medial temporal lobes of the brain.
The two men were able to clinically reproduce this disorder in rhesus monkeys by performing bilateral temporal lobectomies.
[3] He will also be remembered, along with Percival Bailey, for performing important research of brain tumors, in particular oligodendrogliomas and meningiomas.