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Charles Scott Sherrington: Sherrington is considered one of the fathers of neuroscience.
 
 

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Name: Charles Scott Sherrington, Sir
Birth Date: November 27, 1857
Death Date: March 4, 1952
Place of Birth: Islington, England
Place of Death: Eastbourne, England
Nationality: English
Gender: Male
Occupations: physiologist

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Charles Scott Sherrington helped to found the discipline of neurophysiology by his research on how nerve impulses are transmitted between the central nervous system and muscles. Sherrington focused much of his career on understanding the structure and...
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Charles Scott Sherrington became one of the founders of the discipline of neurophysiology through his research on how nerve impulses are transmitted between the central nervous system and muscles. Sherrington focused much of his career on understanding...
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The English physiologist Sir Charles Scott Sherrington (1857-1952) described the fundamental mechanisms of the working of the mammalian nervous system. He formulated the principle of the reciprocal innervation of effectors and discovered the functional...
 


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1857-1952 British physician and neurologist who made important contributions to understanding the relations between brain and spinal cord, efferent and motor nerves, and nerves and muscles. After he published The Integrative Action of the Nervous...
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Sir Charles Scott Sherrington OM GBE, (27 November 1857 – 4 March 1952) was a British scientist known for his contributions to physiology and neuroscience. He shared the 1932 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Edgar Douglas Adrian for "for...


 

Charles Scott Sherrington

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