For the Australian opera singer, see James Olds (bass). For the Welsh rugby league player, see James Olds (rugby league).
James Olds (May 30, 1922 – August 21, 1976) was an American psychologist who co-discovered the pleasure center of the brain with Peter Milner while he was a postdoctoral fellow at McGill University in 1954. He is considered to be one of the founders of modern neuroscience[1][2][3] and received numerous distinctions ranging from election to the United States National Academy of Sciences to the Newcomb Cleveland Prize of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
^Thompson, Richard F. (1999). "James Olds, May 30, 1922 – August 21, 1976". Biographical Memoirs. Vol. 77. National Academy of Sciences. pp. 246–263. doi:10.17226/9681. ISBN 978-0-309-06644-0.; also published as PDF
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