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Charles Scott Sherrington

1952 - 1952

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Sir Charles Scott Sherrington (27 November 1857 – 4 March 1952) was a British neurophysiologist. His experimental research established many aspects of contemporary neuroscience, including the concept of the spinal reflex as a system involving connected neurons (the "neuron doctrine"), and the ways in which signal transmission between neurons can be potentiated or depotentiated. Sherrington himself coined the word "synapse" to define the connection between two neurons. His book The Integrative Action of the Nervous System (1906) is a synthesis of this work, in recognition of which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1932 (along with Edgar Adrian). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Charles Scott Sherrington is the 145th most popular biologist (down from 126th in 2019), the 830th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 766th in 2019) and the 28th most popular British Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Charles Scott Sherrington ranks 145 out of 1,097. Before him are Martin Evans, Gerald Edelman, Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin, Edward B. Lewis, Aimé Bonpland, and Daniel Nathans. After him are E. O. Wilson, Gabriele Falloppio, Ibn al-Baitar, Johan Christian Fabricius, Félix d'Herelle, and Howard Martin Temin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1952, Charles Scott Sherrington ranks 59. Before him are Vahid Halilhodžić, Fuad II of Egypt, Douglas Adams, George Papandreou, John Goodman, and Nicko McBrain. After him are Mustafa Abdul Jalil, Yousaf Raza Gillani, Mickey Rourke, Mr. T, David A. Stewart, and İbrahim Tatlıses. Among people deceased in 1952, Charles Scott Sherrington ranks 26. Before him are Jürgen Stroop, Charles Maurras, Alexandrine of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, George Santayana, and Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg. After him are Hattie McDaniel, Archduke Maximilian Eugen of Austria, Sveinn Björnsson, Rudolf Slánský, Charles Lightoller, and Bedřich Hrozný.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Charles Scott Sherrington ranks 830 out of 8,785. Before him are Thomas of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Clarence (1388), Hertha Ayrton (1854), Colin Maclaurin (1698), Asma al-Assad (1975), Alice Liddell (1852), and Nicko McBrain (1952). After him are Louis Wain (1860), Ian McEwan (1948), Denis Law (1940), Oliver Heaviside (1850), Chris Norman (1950), and Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn (1850).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, Charles Scott Sherrington ranks 28. Before him are James Edward Smith (1759), Erasmus Darwin (1731), Reginald Innes Pocock (1863), William Jackson Hooker (1785), Oliver Smithies (1925), and Martin Evans (1941). After him are Henry Walter Bates (1825), William Bateson (1861), Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817), John Ray (1627), George Robert Gray (1808), and Anna Atkins (1799).

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