Charles Scott Sherrington
English footballer, neurophysiologist and Nobel Prize recipient (1857–1952) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Sir Charles Scott Sherrington OM GBE FRS FRCP FRCS[1][3] (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 transmission between neurons can be potentiated or depotentiated. Sherrington himself coined the word "synapse" to define the connection between two neurons. His book The Integrative Action of the Nervous System (1906)[4] is a synthesis of this work, in recognition of which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1932 (along with Edgar Adrian).[5][6][7][8]
Sir Charles Scott Sherrington | |
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43rd President of the Royal Society | |
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Preceded by | J. J. Thomson |
Succeeded by | Ernest Rutherford |
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Born | (1857-11-27)27 November 1857 Islington, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland |
Died | 4 March 1952(1952-03-04) (aged 94) Eastbourne, Sussex, England, United Kingdom |
Citizenship | British |
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In addition to his work in physiology, Sherrington did research in histology, bacteriology, and pathology. He was president of the Royal Society in the early 1920s.