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    Sir Charles Scott Sherrington OM GBE FRS FRCP FRCS (27 November 1857 – 4 March 1952) was a British neurophysiologist. His experimental research established...
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    quadrillion (150 trillion) The word "synapse" was introduced by Sir Charles Scott Sherrington in 1897. Chemical synapses are not the only type of biological...
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  • (1834–1897) and English neurophysiologist Charles Scott Sherrington (1857–1952). Vulpian-Heidenhain-Sherrington phenomenon @ Who Named It [1] Definition...
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  • innervation as applicable to the eye is also known as Sherrington's law (after Charles Scott Sherrington), wherein increased innervation to an extraocular...
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    [citation needed] Seven of these 14 were students at the college: Charles Scott Sherrington (1932, in Medicine), James Chadwick (1935, in Physics), Francis...
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    across most fields, including 15 Nobel Prize laureates: 1932 Charles Scott Sherrington – neurophysiologist (student and fellow) 1935 James Chadwick –...
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  • capsaicin, and tissue damage. The term "nociception" was coined by Charles Scott Sherrington to distinguish the physiological process (nervous activity) from...
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    judge, and summer garden party. The Sherrington Society is named after Nobel laureate Sir Charles Scott Sherrington, former Waynflete Professor of Physiology...
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    intensity, but all pain is real. Nociceptors were discovered by Charles Scott Sherrington in 1906. In earlier centuries, scientists believed that animals...
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  • contractions of a single muscle. The concept was proposed by Charles Scott Sherrington. All muscle fibers in a motor unit are of the same fiber type[citation...
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    Nicholas Murray Butler 1932 Werner Heisenberg Irving Langmuir Charles Scott Sherrington; Edgar Adrian John Galsworthy None 1933 Erwin Schrödinger; Paul...
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  • astrophysicist Mark Pallen — microbiologist Adam Scaife — physicist Sir Charles Scott Sherrington — neurologist and Nobel Prize winner M. S. Swaminathan — geneticist...
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    scientific approach from his study of psychology, particularly that of Charles Scott Sherrington. In The Principles of Literary Criticism, Richards discusses the...
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    neurological surgery abroad under Emil Theodor Kocher at Bern and Charles Scott Sherrington at Liverpool. Cushing began his career in private practice in...
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    (Chemistry 1908), Lawrence Bragg (Physics 1915), Charles Barkla (Physics 1917), Francis Aston (Chemistry 1922), Charles Thomson Rees Wilson (Physics 1927), Owen...
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    Kingdom. After his death in 1937, he was buried in Westminster Abbey near Charles Darwin and Isaac Newton. The chemical element rutherfordium (104Rf) was...
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  • from 1st November 1882–1905 John Scott Burdon-Sanderson 1905–1913 Francis Gotch 1913–1935 Charles Scott Sherrington 1936–1939 John Mellanby 1940–1960...
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  • Francis Evans; Francis Fogarty; Archibald Forbes; 1st Baron Hailes; Charles Keightley; Charles Pizey; Geoffrey Thompson; Lewis Williams Douglas (honorary); Nils...
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    intero-ception and extero-ception) is attested in a publication by Charles Scott Sherrington involving receptors. He explains the terminology as follows: The...
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    1928: Charles Nicolle 1929: Christiaan Eijkman / Frederick Gowland Hopkins 1930: Karl Landsteiner 1931: Otto Warburg 1932: Charles Scott Sherrington / Edgar...
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    it till 1903. One of his most famous students at Cambridge was Charles Scott Sherrington who went on to win the Nobel Prize in 1932. He married first,...
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    Niels Bohr (Physics – 1922) Werner Heisenberg (Physics – 1932) Charles Scott Sherrington (Medicine – 1933) Erwin Schrödinger (Physics – 1935) James Chadwick...
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    DNA spiral celebrating Francis Crick, and windows celebrating Charles Scott Sherrington, George Green and James Chadwick. In June 2020, during the global...
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  • 1924 30 January 1846 – 18 September 1924 Philosopher 47. Sir Charles Scott Sherrington 3 June 1924 27 November 1857 – 4 March 1952 Physiologist 48. Sir...
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  • Peace, 1934 Norman Angell, Peace, 1933 Paul Dirac, Physics, 1933 Charles Scott Sherrington, Physiology or Medicine, 1932 John Galsworthy, Literature, 1932...
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    University Press. Retrieved 25 September 2023. Craighead, W. Edward; Nemeroff, Charles B., eds. (2004). "Neuroethology". The Concise Corsini Encyclopedia of Psychology...
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  • The Physiological Society bought the journal from his widow. Charles Scott Sherrington was appointed the first chairman of the editorial board in 1926...
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    Charles Moen Rice (born August 25, 1952) is an American virologist and Nobel Prize laureate whose main area of research is the hepatitis C virus. He is...
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    Experimental Learning", acquiring a Royal Charter on 15 July 1662. King Charles II granted the society a royal charter in 1662, formally establishing it...
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    included "Goethe on nature and science" in 1942 by Nobel laureate Charles Scott Sherrington, and in 1933, Albert Einstein gave the talk "Einiges zur atomistic"...
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