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| rdfs:comment | - William Halse Rivers Rivers, FRCP, FRS, ( – ) was an English anthropologist, neurologist, ethnologist and psychiatrist, best known for his work treating World War I officers who were suffering from shell shock. Rivers's 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.
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| Prizes | - Croonian Lecturer, 1906
- Royal Medal, 1915
- Honorary M.A from the University of Cambridge, 1897
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| Residence | - Kent, London and Cambridge
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| death place | - Evelyn Nursing Home, Cambridge
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| Caption | - Photograph of Rivers taken by Henry Maull
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| Known For | - 1898
- Treating soldiers during World War I who were suffering from shell shock
- Experiments on nerve regeneration with Henry Head
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| Signature | - W.H.R Rivers Signature.jpg
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| abstract | - William Halse Rivers Rivers, FRCP, FRS, ( – ) was an English anthropologist, neurologist, ethnologist and psychiatrist, best known for his work treating World War I officers who were suffering from shell shock. Rivers's 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.
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