Edgar Douglas Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian OM FRS (30 November 1889 – 4 August 1977) was an English electrophysiologist and recipient of the 1932 Nobel Prize...
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27 January 1955 for the electrophysiologist and Nobel Prize recipient Edgar Adrian. He was succeeded by his only son, the second Baron. He was Professor...
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Adrian (1931–2014), American artist Chris Adrian (born 1970), American author Edgar Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian (1889–1977), British electrophysiologist and...
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(née Adrian) and physiologist Richard Keynes. His maternal grandparents were Hester Adrian, Baroness Adrian, mental health worker, and Edgar Adrian, 1st...
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senior schools in the UK. Among its graduates are three Nobel laureates: Edgar Adrian (Nobel Prize for Physiology in 1932), Sir Andrew Huxley (likewise in...
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mentally handicapped children and adults". Hester Pinsent married Edgar Douglas Adrian on 14 June 1923. He won the Nobel Prize in Physiology in 1932, and...
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University of Cambridge and the only son of the Nobel laureate Edgar Adrian (1st Baron Adrian). The ceremony was held at the Royal Society on 26 November...
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great-grandparents were Nobel Prize laureate Edgar Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian and Hester Adrian, Baroness Adrian. On his mother's side, Keynes is of Lebanese...
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portal Historiography of the United Kingdom Liberalism in the United Kingdom Adrian, L. (1963). "George Macaulay Trevelyan 1876-1962". Biographical Memoirs...
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Darwin. His mother was The Honorable Ann Pinsent Adrian, who was the daughter of Edgar Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian and his wife Hester (née Pinsent). His elder...
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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...
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Butler 1932 Werner Heisenberg Irving Langmuir Charles Scott Sherrington; Edgar Adrian John Galsworthy None 1933 Erwin Schrödinger; Paul Dirac None Thomas Hunt...
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In office 1945–1950 Preceded by Sir Henry Hallett Dale Succeeded by Edgar Adrian Personal details Born (1886-09-13)13 September 1886 Derbyshire, England...
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cells was conducted by British physiologist Keith Lucas and his protege Edgar Adrian. Keith Lucas' experiments in the first decade of the twentieth century...
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Jan Smuts 1950–1967 Arthur Tedder, 1st Baron Tedder 1967–1976 Edgar Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian 1976–2011 Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh 2011– David Sainsbury...
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Ross – Biographical". Nobel Foundation. 1902. Retrieved 13 June 2016. "Edgar Adrian – Biographical". Nobel Foundation. 1932. Retrieved 13 June 2016. "Sir...
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Institute. He conducted pioneering studies on nerve conduction together with Edgar Adrian. He then worked on sensory function of skin, particularly related to...
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carried out by Edgar Adrian in 1925 from a set of crosscut muscle fibres. Using a thermionic triode valve amplifier with 1850 amplification, Adrian noticed that...
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1945, he married Anne Pinsent Adrian, daughter of Edgar Adrian and his wife Hester (née Pinsent). They had four sons, Adrian (1946–1974), Randal Keynes (1948-2023)...
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only son of Edgar Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian and his wife, Hester Agnes Pinsent, a mental health worker. His older sister, Anne Pinsent Adrian, married the...
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led to the adoption of the neuron doctrine. Charles Sherrington and Edgar Adrian (1932) for their discoveries of the general function of neurons, including...
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president cannot serve for more than five years. The current President is Sir Adrian Smith who began his 5-year tenure on 30 November 2020. Historically, the...
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Abernethy – British surgeon Joseph Adams – British surgeon and pathologist Edgar Adrian – British neuroscientist and physiologist, recipient of the 1932 Nobel...
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Ramon y Cajal (born in 1852), and physiologists Charles Sherrington, Edgar Adrian, Alan Hodgkin, and Andrew Huxley. Charles Sherrington, who was born in...
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Augustus John 11 June 1942 4 January 1878 – 31 October 1961 Painter 74. Edgar Adrian 11 June 1942 30 November 1889 – 4 August 1977 Physiologist 75. Sir William...
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Karl Landsteiner 1931: Otto Warburg 1932: Charles Scott Sherrington / Edgar Adrian 1933: Thomas Morgan 1934: George Whipple / George Minot / William Murphy...
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1st Baron Webb-Johnson Francis Walshe Clement Price Thomas Edgar Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian Terence Cawthorne Henry Cohen, 1st Baron Cohen of Birkenhead...
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(1857–1952) British "for their discoveries regarding the functions of neurons" Edgar Adrian (1889–1977) 1933 Thomas Hunt Morgan (1866–1945) American "for his discoveries...
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politician Gustav Hamel (1889–1914), pioneer aviator Sir Adrian Boult (1889–1984), conductor Edgar Adrian (1889–1977), scientist and Nobel Prizewinner Francis...
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Physiology or Medicine, 1932 John Galsworthy, Literature, 1932 Edgar Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian, Physiology or Medicine, 1932 Arthur Harden, Chemistry, 1929...
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