SHERRINGTON (Charles Scott, 1857-1952, Neurophysiologist, Histologist, Bacteriologist, and Pathologist, Nobel laureate and president of the Royal Society)

Fine signature with the place and date on an album leaf, 7" X 4½", Eastbourne, 12th May

He received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Edgar Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian, in 1932 for their work on the functions of neurons. Prior to the work of Sherrington and Adrian, it was widely accepted that reflexes occurred as isolated activity within a reflex arc.

Item Date:  1948

Stock No:  38852      £175

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