biography
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Eccles, Sir John (Carew)
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| lived:
| (1903–97)
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| biography:
| Physiologist, born in Melbourne, Victoria, SE Australia. He studied at Melbourne and Oxford, became director of the Kanematsu Institute of Pathology at Sydney (1937), and was professor of physiology at Otago University (1944–51), then at Canberra (1951–66). In 1968 he moved to the State University of New York at Buffalo. A specialist in neurophysiology, he was knighted in 1958, and shared the 1963 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for work on the functioning of nervous impulses. |
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