Charles Scott Sherrington
1857 – 1952 · aged 95
English footballer, neurophysiologist and Nobel Prize recipient (1857–1952)
- Born
- 27 Nov 1857 · London
- Died
- 4 Mar 1952 · Eastbourne
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- 27 Nov 1857BornBorn in London
- 1897AwardCroonian Medal and Lecture
- 1899AwardBaly Medal
- 1904AwardSilliman Memorial Lectures
- 1905AwardRoyal Medal
- 1920 – 1925RolePresident of the Royal Society
- 1927AwardCopley Medal
- 1927AwardHonorary doctorate from the University of Strasbourg
- 1928AwardDoctor honoris causa from the University of Paris
- 1932AwardNobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- 1946AwardDoctor honoris causa from the University of Lyon
- 4 Mar 1952DiedDied in Eastbourne
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Meanwhile in the world
Major world events during their lifetime (1857 – 1952).
- 1857 – 1858Indian Rebellion of 1857
- 1870 – 1871Franco-Prussian War
- 18961896 Summer Olympics
- 1898Spanish–American War
- 1904 – 1905Russo-Japanese War
- 1914 – 1918World War I
- 1915 – 1923Armenian genocide
- 1917Balfour Declaration
- 1917February Revolution
- 1917October Revolution
- 1917 – 1922Russian Civil War
- 1919 – 1920Paris Peace Conference
- 1920Treaty of Versailles
- 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
- 19341934 FIFA World Cup
- 19361936 Summer Olympics
- 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
- 19381938 FIFA World Cup
- 1938Munich Agreement
- 1939 – 1940Winter War
- 1939 – 1945World War II
- 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
- 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
- 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
- 1941Operation Barbarossa
- 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
- 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
- 19501950 FIFA World Cup
- 1950 – 1953Korean War
Biography
Sir Charles Scott Sherrington (27 November 1857 – 4 March 1952) was a British neurophysiologist and academic. 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 how 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) 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).
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.
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