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Edgar Douglas Adrian
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Edgar Douglas Adrian

1889 – 1977 · aged 88

English electrophysiologist (1889-1977)

Born
30 Nov 1889 · Hampstead
Died
4 Aug 1977 · Cambridge

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 101 years
  1. 30 Nov 1889BornBorn in Hampstead
  2. 1914 – 1918WarWorld War I
  3. 1929AwardBaly Medal
  4. 1931AwardCroonian Medal and Lecture
  5. 1932AwardNobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
  6. 1934AwardRoyal Medal
  7. 1942AwardOrder of Merit
  8. 1946AwardCopley Medal
  9. 1946AwardDoctor honoris causa from the University of Lyon
  10. 1950 – 1955RolePresident of the Royal Society
  11. 1951 – 1965RoleMaster of Trinity College, Cambridge
  12. 1953AwardAlbert Medal
  13. 1955 – 1977RoleMember of the House of Lords
  14. 1957AwardDoctor honoris causa from the University of Paris
  15. 1957 – 1959RoleVice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge
  16. 1960 – 1962RolePresident of the Royal Society of Medicine
  17. 1961AwardKarl Spencer Lashley Award
  18. 1967 – 1976RoleChancellor of the university of Cambridge
  19. 4 Aug 1977DiedDied in Cambridge

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1889 – 1977).

  1. 18961896 Summer Olympics
  2. 1898Spanish–American War
  3. 1904 – 1905Russo-Japanese War
  4. 1915 – 1923Armenian genocide
  5. 1917Balfour Declaration
  6. 1917February Revolution
  7. 1917October Revolution
  8. 1917 – 1922Russian Civil War
  9. 1919 – 1920Paris Peace Conference
  10. 1920Treaty of Versailles
  11. 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
  12. 19341934 FIFA World Cup
  13. 19361936 Summer Olympics
  14. 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
  15. 19381938 FIFA World Cup
  16. 1938Munich Agreement
  17. 1939 – 1940Winter War
  18. 1939 – 1945World War II
  19. 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
  20. 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
  21. 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
  22. 1941Operation Barbarossa
  23. 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
  24. 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  25. 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
  26. 19501950 FIFA World Cup
  27. 1950 – 1953Korean War
  28. 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
  29. 19541954 FIFA World Cup
  30. 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
  31. 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
  32. 1956Suez Crisis
  33. 19581958 FIFA World Cup
  34. 1959Antarctic Treaty System
  35. 19621962 FIFA World Cup
  36. 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
  37. 19661966 FIFA World Cup
  38. 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
  39. 1968Prague Spring
  40. 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing

Biography

Edgar Douglas Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian (30 November 1889 – 4 August 1977) was an English electrophysiologist and recipient of the 1932 Nobel Prize for Physiology, won jointly with Sir Charles Sherrington for work on the function of neurons. He provided experimental evidence for the all-or-none law of nerves.

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