biography
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Sherrington, Sir Charles Scott
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| lived:
| (1857–1952)
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| biography:
| Physiologist, born in London, UK. He studied at Cambridge and Berlin, taught at London University, where he became professor of pathology (1891–5), and was then professor of physiology at Liverpool (1895–1913) and Oxford (1913–35). His research on the nervous system constituted a landmark in modern physiology. His 1904 publication The Integrative Action of the Nervous System was the first to recognize the role of the nervous system in co-ordinating the activities of all the cells of the body. He also conducted research into infectious diseases including cholera, malaria, and sleeping sickness, and served on government committees investigating the lighting of factories, the effects of alcohol, and foot-and-mouth disease. Knighted in 1922, he shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1932. |
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