Edgar Douglas Adrian
- Prize
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — 1932for their discoveries regarding the functions of neuronsTogether with: Charles Scott Sherrington
- Citizenship
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United Kingdom - Languages
- English
- date of birth
- 11/30/1889
- place of birth
- Hampstead
- date of death
- 8/4/1977
- place of death
- Cambridge
- Lived
- 87 years
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- position held
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- President of the Royal Society of Medicine
- end time: 1962
- start time: 1960
- Chancellor of the university of Cambridge
- end time: 1976
- start time: 1967
- member of the House of Lords
- end time: 8/4/1977
- start time: 3/2/1955
- Master of Trinity College, Cambridge
- end time: 1965
- start time: 1951
- Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge
- start time: 1957
- end time: 1959
- President of the Royal Society
- end time: 1955
- start time: 1950
- President of the Royal Society of Medicine
- employer
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- University of Cambridge
- end time: 1951
- start time: 1937
- University of Cambridge
- member of
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- Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
- start time: 10/5/1947
- National Academy of Sciences
- start time: 1941
- American Philosophical Society
- start time: 1938
- Royal Society of London
- start time: 5/3/1923
- Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
- Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Académie Nationale de Médecine
- Royal Academy of Science, Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
- Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
- work location
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- London
- field of work
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- electrophysiology
- occupation
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- physician
- politician
- physiologist
- university teacher
- neuroscientist
- anatomist
- educated at
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- Westminster School
- Trinity College