Wednesday, July 19, 2017

Second World War: Paris neurosurgeon's map outwitted Nazis

Second World War: Paris neurosurgeon's map outwitted Nazis

Nature 547, 7663 (2017). doi:10.1038/547281a

Authors: Pierre Bourdillon, Marc Lévêque & Caroline Apra

Neurosurgeon Jean Talairach (1911–2007) created his pioneering brain atlas with his colleague Gabor Szikla in 1967. Almost three decades earlier, he had painstakingly drawn a quite different map — of Paris's subterranean ossuaries (see 'Catacomb network under Paris'), a copy of which we recently unearthed



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