Charles Scott Sherrington

Sir Charles Scott Sherrington OM, GBE, PRS (27 November 1857 - 4 March 1952) was an English neurophysiologist, histologist, bacteriologist, and a pathologist, Nobel laureate and president of the Royal Society in the early 1920s. He received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Edgar Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian in 1932. Charles Scott Sherrington was born in Islington, London, England on 27 November 1857. Although official biographies claime... more

Date of birth:

  • Nov 27, 1857

Date of death:

  • Mar 4, 1952 (age 94 years)

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  • Sir Charles Scott Sherrington,
  • Sir Charles Sherrington
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