Charles Scott Sherrington

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1857 – 1952

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Who was Charles Scott Sherrington?

Sir Charles Scott Sherrington, OM, GBE, PRS was an English neurophysiologist, histologist, bacteriologist, and a pathologist, Nobel laureate and president of the Royal Society in the early 1920s. He received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Edgar Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian, in 1932 for their work on the functions of neurons. Prior to the work of Sherrington and Adrian, it was widely accepted that reflexes occurred as isolated activity within a reflex arc. Sherrington received the prize for showing that reflexes require integrated activation and demonstrated reciprocal innervation of muscles.

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Born
Nov 27, 1857
Islington
Also known as
  • Sir Charles Scott Sherrington
  • Sir Charles Sherrington
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Ethnicity
  • English people
Nationality
  • United Kingdom
Profession
Education
  • King's College London
  • Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
    ( - 1886)
  • Ipswich Grammar School
  • Ipswich School
  • Royal College of Surgeons of England
  • University of Cambridge
Employment
  • Waynflete Professorship, University of Oxford
    (1913 - 1936)
Lived in
  • England
Died
Mar 4, 1952
Eastbourne

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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