Science
SHERRINGTON
(Charles Scott, 1857-1952, Neurophysiologist, Histologist, Bacteriologist, and Pathologist, Nobel laureate and president of the Royal Society)
Fine signature with the place and date
on an album leaf, 7 X 4½, Eastbourne, 12th May
Item Date: 1948
Background
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.
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