Charles Scott Sherrington
English footballer, neurophysiologist and Nobel Prize recipient (1857-1952) · United Kingdom · On the map · Footballers · Died at 94
Sir Charles Scott Sherrington 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, and the ways in which signal transmission between neurons can be potentiated or...
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C.S. Roy and Charles Scott Sherrington (right), at the door of the Old Pathological Laboratory, Cambridge, 1893
Plaque dedicated to Sherrington at the University of Liverpool
Box of microscope slides carrying the plaque: "Sir Charles Sherrington's Histology Demonstration Slides: St Thomas's Hospital: 1886-1895; Liverpool University: 1895-1915; Oxford University: 1914-1935"
Stained glass window in the dining hall of Gonville and Caius College, in Cambridge (UK), commemorating Charles Scott SherringtonAwards
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His experimental research established many aspects of contemporary neuroscience, including the concept of the spinal reflex as a system involving connected neurons, 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.
