Mayo Clinic Proceedings, October 1st, 2005
Sir Charles Scott Sherrington, English neurophysiologist, has been called "the William Harvey of the nervous system" because his contributions to knowledge of the mammalian nervous system are comparable to those of the English physician and anatomist William Harvey (1578-1657) to knowledge of the circulatory system. In a career that spanned 69 years, Sherrington laid the foundation for understanding the integrated function of the nervous system in higher animals. This work earned him many honors and awards, including the 1932 Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine. He shared this prize with th...
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