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Edgar Douglas Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian OM FRS (30 November 1889 – 4 August 1977) was an English electrophysiologist and recipient of the 1932 Nobel Prize for Physiology, won jointly with Sir Charles Sherrington for work on the function of neurons. He provided experimental evidence for the all-or-none law of nerves.
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Edgar Douglas Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian (born Nov. 30, 1889, London, Eng.—died Aug. 4, 1977, Cambridge) was a British electrophysiologist who, with Sir Charles Sherrington, won the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1932 for discoveries regarding the nerve cell.
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Edgar Adrian—Nobel Prize for Work on Neurons. View Large Image. Download (PPT) The 1932 Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine was shared by two English scientists, Edgar Douglas Adrian and Charles S. Sherrington (1857-1952), for their discoveries about the function of neurons.
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- 1998
Nobel Lecture, December 12, 1932. The Activity of the Nerve Fibres. The sense organs respond to certain changes in their environment by sending messages or signals to the central nervous system.
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The English neurophysiologist Edgar Douglas Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian of Cambridge (born 1889), shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with Sir Charles Sherrington for their discoveries regarding the functions of neurons.
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