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1932 (5) |
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1952 (2) |
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45. Other Awards |
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Copley Medal (60) |
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Croonian Lecture (32) |
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| complete name: |
Sir Charles Scott Sherrington |
| nobel prize: |
medicine |
| award year: |
1932 |
| together with: |
Edgar Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian |
| prize share: |
Prize share: 1/2 |
| rational: |
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1932 was awarded jointly to Sir Charles Scott Sherrington and Edgar Douglas Adrian "for their discoveries regarding the functions of neurons." |
| biography: |
Biography |
| laureate facts: |
Facts |
| laureate lecture: |
Lecture |
| given name: |
Charles |
| family name: |
Sherrington |
| occupation: |
physician |
| occupation: |
neurologist |
| occupation: |
university teacher |
| occupation: |
pathologist |
| field of work: |
physiology |
| field of work: |
histology |
| field of work: |
pathology |
| field of work: |
bacteriology |
| field of work: |
neurobiology |
| work location: |
Magdalen College, Oxford, United Kingdom |
| description: |
Sir Charles Scott Sherrington 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 (Sherrington's law). Through his seminal 1906 publication, The Integrative Action of the Nervous System, he had effectively laid to rest the theory that the nervous system, including the brain, can be understood as a single interlinking network. His alternative explanation of synaptic communication between neurons helped shape our understanding of the central nervous system. |
| image copyright: |
Photo from the Nobel Foundation archive. |
| image citation: |
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1932. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Media AB 2018. <https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1932/summary/> |
| date birth: |
1857 |
| date death: |
1952 |
| usual name: |
Charles Sherrington |
