JON CHASE, HARVARD STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Harvard University neuroscience professor Samuel (S.) Allen Counter passed away from cancer on Wednesday, July 12, in his Cambridge, Massachusetts, home at the age of 73, The New York Times reports.
Counter earned a doctorate in neurobiology from Case Western University, according to The Washington Post, and eventually went on to obtain a second doctorate in medical science from Sweden’s Karolinska Institute. He joined Harvard Medical School in 1970.
Throughout his eclectic career, Counter’s research interests in ethnography and neurophysiology took him all over the globe. He had spent time in South America studying lead poisonings and the secluded populaces of former slaves, according to the obituaries.
During his notable time in Greenland, Counter had determined that the cause of a mass case of hearing loss suffered by Inuit people was self-inflicted: repeated exposures to gun shots during seal hunts had been the culprit, The New York Times reports. It was there that he began to ...
