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Sir Charles Scott Sherrington
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Born November 27, 1857 • London • England
Died March 4, 1952 (aged 94) • England
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (1932) • Copley Medal (1927)
Notable Works “The Integrative Action of the Nervous System”
Subjects Of Study nervous system • neuron • sense organ • spinal reflex • synapse

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Andrew Fielding Huxley
Sir Andrew Fielding Huxley
British physiologist
Sir Henry Dale, 1956.
Sir Henry Dale
British physiologist
Lord Adrian. 1956.
Edgar Douglas Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian
British electrophysiologist
Nurse, Paul
Paul Nurse
British scientist
Frederick Gowland Hopkins
Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins
British biochemist
Lord Florey.
Howard Walter Florey, Baron Florey
Australian pathologist
Sir John Robert Vane
British biochemist
Sir Alan Hodgkin
Sir Alan Hodgkin
British biophysicist
A.V. Hill, detail of a pencil drawing by F.W. Schmin, 1923
A.V. Hill
British physiologist and biophysicist
Thomas C. Südhof
German-American neuroscientist
Ivan Pavlov
Ivan Pavlov
Russian physiologist
John O'Keefe
John O’Keefe
British-American neuroscientist
Peter J. Ratcliffe
British physician and scientist
Crick, Francis
Francis Crick
British biophysicist
Peter B. Medawar, 1960.
Sir Peter B. Medawar
British zoologist
Sir Hans Adolf Krebs
Sir Hans Adolf Krebs
German-British biochemist
César Milstein
Argentine immunologist
Martin Evans
Martin Evans
British scientist
Rodney Robert Porter
British biochemist
Sir Bernard Katz
British physiologist

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