Charles Scott Sherrington - Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — 1932
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Charles Scott Sherrington

Prize
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — 1932
for their discoveries regarding the functions of neurons
Together with: Edgar Douglas Adrian
Citizenship
United States United States United Kingdom United Kingdom
Languages
English
date of birth
11/27/1857
place of birth
Islington, London
date of death
3/4/1952
place of death
Eastbourne
Lived
94 years
member of
  • Pontifical Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 10/28/1936
  • German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
    • start time: 1925
  • National Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 1924
  • Academy of Sciences of Turin
    • start time: 6/11/1922
  • Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony
    • start time: 1906
  • Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
    • start time: 8/21/1905
  • Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
    • start time: 5/15/1912
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
    • start time: 1918
  • Russian Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 11/28/1915
  • Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
  • Accademia Nazionale delle Scienze detta dei XL
  • Royal Society of London
position held
  • President of the Royal Society
    • end time: 1925
    • start time: 1920
educated at
  • Ipswich School
  • Fitzwilliam College
  • Gonville and Caius College
  • St Thomas's Hospital Medical School
  • University of Oxford
field of work
  • physiology
  • pathology
  • histology
  • bacteriology
  • neurobiology
occupation
  • neurologist
  • association football player
  • physiologist
  • university teacher
  • pathologist
  • physician
  • naturalist
employer
  • King's College London
  • Magdalen College
  • University of Liverpool
doctoral student
  • John Farquhar Fulton
  • John Farquhar Fulton
  • John Carew Eccles
  • Wilder Penfield
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