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Sir Charles Scott Sherrington OM GBE FRS FRCP FRCS (27 November 1857 – 4 March 1952) was a British neurophysiologist. His experimental research established many aspects of contemporary neuroscience, including the concept of the spinal reflex as a system involving connected neurons (the " neuron doctrine "), and the ways in which signal ...
Apr 8, 2024 · Sir Charles Scott Sherrington was an English physiologist whose 50 years of experimentation laid the foundations for an understanding of integrated nervous function in higher animals and brought him (with Edgar Adrian) the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1932.
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1932 was awarded jointly to Sir Charles Scott Sherrington and Edgar Douglas Adrian "for their discoveries regarding the functions of neurons"
Sir Charles Scott Sherrington. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1932. Born: 27 November 1857, London, United Kingdom. Died: 4 March 1952, Eastbourne, United Kingdom. Affiliation at the time of the award: University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.
Apr 1, 2007 · In 1906 Sir Charles Sherrington published The Integrative Action of the Nervous System, which was a collection of ten lectures delivered two years before at Yale University in the United States. In this monograph Sherrington summarized two decades of painstaking experimental observations and his incisive interpretation of them.
May 6, 2010 · Sir Charles Sherrington was one of the outstanding physiologists of his time. He coined the term 'synapse' 1, established the importance of inhibition in neuronal function 2 and wrote...
Nov 27, 2021 · On November 27, 1857, English neurophysiologist and Nobel Laureate Sir Charles Scott Sherrington was born. Sherrington received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Edgar Adrian in 1932 for their work on the functions of neurons.
