MARCEL-KINSBOURNE-Obituary

DR. MARCEL KINSBOURNE

Winchester, Massachusetts

1931 - 2024

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Dr. Marcel Kinsbourne, a distinguished pediatric neurologist and cognitive neuroscientist, passed away on April 21, 2024. He was born in Vienna, Austria on November 3, 1931, the only child of David Hersch Kinsbrunner and Mathilde Kinsbrunner. At eight years old, he and his parents escaped Nazi...

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Such a kind, loving, humane, gentle man. I will always remember him with a smile.

I will send you a paper I'm presently writing discussing how his work inspired mine. Ill also send the one I was hoping to share with him. he was the smartest man I ever met. Wish I tried to get him to San Francisco to work with me after he wowed me when he spoke at a conference at my invitation Im retired on Maui now. Caroline, should you ever want a nice getaway, I'd be honored to roll out the carpet. just got a nice condo o the bay. Bob Sine

Marcel was a giant in his profession and a mentor to developmental pediatricans in the early days of that subspecialty.

We have lost a wonderful, brilliant human being. He was so kind and generous to our family. I will never forget him, and consider it an honor to have met him.

I was very sad to hear of Marcel's passing. I met him when he came to give a talk at my graduate school in the late 1970's while he was still at Sick Children's in Toronto, and every time I would run into him at a conference over the following years, he remembered me, and was always kind and encouraging regarding my work and our discussions about the brain. This continued when he moved to Boston where I had the privilege of continuing these sorts of discussion randomly over the years. I...