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Edgar Adrian

1889 - 1977

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Edgar Douglas Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian (30 November 1889 – 4 August 1977) was an English electrophysiologist and recipient of the 1932 Nobel Prize for Physiology, won jointly with Sir Charles Sherrington for work on the function of neurons. He provided experimental evidence for the all-or-none law of nerves. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Edgar Adrian is the 14th most popular physician (up from 130th in 2019), the 117th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 667th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular British Physician.

Edgar Adrian was a British physiologist who won the 1932 Nobel Prize in Medicine for his work on the physiology of nerve and muscle.

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Among physicians, Edgar Adrian ranks 14 out of 726. Before him are L. L. Zamenhof, Joseph Lister, Edward Jenner, Anthony Fauci, Albert Schweitzer, and Andreas Vesalius. After him are Ignaz Semmelweis, William Harvey, Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi, Alan Hodgkin, Pedanius Dioscorides, and Nestorius.

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Among people born in 1889, Edgar Adrian ranks 7. Before him are Adolf Hitler, Charlie Chaplin, Martin Heidegger, Ludwig Wittgenstein, António de Oliveira Salazar, and Jean Cocteau. After him are Jawaharlal Nehru, Edwin Hubble, Philip Noel-Baker, Paul Karrer, Ante Pavelić, and Anna Akhmatova. Among people deceased in 1977, Edgar Adrian ranks 4. Before him are Charlie Chaplin, Elvis Presley, and Maria Callas. After him are Vladimir Nabokov, Stefania Turkewich, Wernher von Braun, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Clementine Churchill, Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk, Ludwig Erhard, and René Goscinny.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Edgar Adrian ranks 117 out of 8,785. Before him are Lady Margaret Beaufort (1443), William Gilbert (1544), Thomas Robert Malthus (1766), John Stuart Mill (1806), Herbert Spencer (1820), and David Bowie (1947). After him are Nevill Francis Mott (1905), Lewis Carroll (1832), Lemmy (1945), Jeff Beck (1944), Maud of Wales (1869), and Roger Taylor (1949).

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Among PHYSICIANS In United Kingdom

Among physicians born in United Kingdom, Edgar Adrian ranks 3. Before him are Joseph Lister (1827), and Edward Jenner (1749). After him are William Harvey (1578), Alan Hodgkin (1914), John Snow (1813), James Black (1924), Niels Kaj Jerne (1911), James Parkinson (1755), Elizabeth Blackwell (1821), Robert Knox (1791), and Hans Sloane (1660).

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