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John Carew Eccles
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Person

John Carew Eccles

1903 – 1997 · aged 94

Australian neurophysiologist (1903–1997)

Born
27 Jan 1903 · Melbourne
Died
2 May 1997 · Tenero-Contra
Part ofAustralia1808 – today

Life timeline

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

Showing 108 years
  1. 27 Jan 1903BornBorn in Melbourne
  2. 1925AwardRhodes Scholarship
  3. 1950AwardFellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi
  4. 1953AwardFellow of the Australian Academy of Science
  5. 1958AwardKnight Bachelor
  6. 1961AwardBaly Medal
  7. 1961AwardJames Cook Medal
  8. 1962AwardRoyal Medal
  9. 1963AwardAustralian of the Year
  10. 1963AwardMatthew Flinders Medal and Lecture
  11. 1963AwardNobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
  12. 1972AwardAnnual Review Prize Lecture
  13. 1990AwardCompanion of the Order of Australia
  14. 2 May 1997DiedDied in Tenero-Contra

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1903 – 1997).

  1. 1904 – 1905Russo-Japanese War
  2. 1914 – 1918World War I
  3. 1915 – 1923Armenian genocide
  4. 1917Balfour Declaration
  5. 1917February Revolution
  6. 1917October Revolution
  7. 1917 – 1922Russian Civil War
  8. 1919 – 1920Paris Peace Conference
  9. 1920Treaty of Versailles
  10. 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
  11. 19341934 FIFA World Cup
  12. 19361936 Summer Olympics
  13. 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
  14. 19381938 FIFA World Cup
  15. 1938Munich Agreement
  16. 1939 – 1940Winter War
  17. 1939 – 1945World War II
  18. 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
  19. 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
  20. 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
  21. 1941Operation Barbarossa
  22. 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
  23. 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  24. 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
  25. 19501950 FIFA World Cup
  26. 1950 – 1953Korean War
  27. 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
  28. 19541954 FIFA World Cup
  29. 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
  30. 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
  31. 1956Suez Crisis
  32. 19581958 FIFA World Cup
  33. 1959Antarctic Treaty System
  34. 19621962 FIFA World Cup
  35. 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
  36. 19661966 FIFA World Cup
  37. 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
  38. 1968Prague Spring
  39. 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
  40. 19721972 Summer Olympics

Biography

Sir John Carew Eccles (27 January 1903 – 2 May 1997) was an Australian neurophysiologist and philosopher who won the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on the synapse. He shared the prize with Andrew Huxley and Alan Lloyd Hodgkin.

Text from the Wikipedia article John Eccles (neurophysiologist), CC BY-SA 4.0

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