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Sir Charles Scott Sherrington

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 System (1906), he was acknowledged as the world's foremost neuroanatomist and neurophysiologist. He shared the 1932 Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine with Lord Edgar Douglas Adrian for their work on the structure and function of neurons.

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