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Mar 12, 1864 Chatham, England, United Kingdom Died on 04 Jun 1922 (aged 58)
English anthropologist, neurologist, ethnologist and psychiatrist
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About W. H. R. Rivers
- William Halse Rivers Rivers ((1864-03-12)12 March 1864 – (1922-06-04)4 June 1922) was an English anthropologist, neurologist, ethnologist and psychiatrist, best known for his work treating First World War officers who were suffering from shell shock.
- Rivers' most famous patient was the poet Siegfried Sassoon, with whom he remained close friends until his own sudden death.
- Rivers was a fellow of St John's College, Cambridge, and is also notable for his participation in the Torres Straits expedition of 1898 and his consequent seminal work on the subject of kinship.
