William Frederick Windle (October 10, 1898, Huntington, Indiana – February 20, 1985, Granville, Ohio) was an American anatomist and experimental neurologist.
[1][2] His Ph.D. thesis Studies on the trigeminal nerve with particular reference to the pathway for painful afferent impulses[3] was supervised by S. Walter Ranson (1880–1942).
[2] Beginning in 1957, Windle and collaborators worked to further develop experimental neurological research in a colony of rhesus monkeys located at Cayo Santiago Field Station.
[6] The island Cayo Santiago is owned by the Universidad de Puerto Rico, and researchers are the only visitors allowed.
He contributed important insights into the etiology and pathogenesis of cerebral palsy and other forms of infantile brain damage.
By experimental neurology on kittens, guinea pigs, and monkeys, he and his colleagues created a basis for prevention and treatment of childbirth asphyxia in newborns.