Sir

Charles Scott Sherrington

OM GBE FRS PRS FRCP FRCS
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Born(1857-11-27)27 November 1857
Islington, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Died4 March 1952(1952-03-04)(aged 94)
Eastbourne, Sussex, England, United Kingdom
CitizenshipBritish
Alma mater
  • Ipswich School
  • Royal College of Surgeons of England
  • University of Cambridge
Awards
  • FRS (1893)
  • Royal Medal (1905)
  • Copley Medal (1927)
  • Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1932)
Scientific career
Fields
  • Physiology
  • Pathology
  • Histology
  • Neurology
  • Bacteriology
Institutions
  • King's College, London
  • University of Liverpool
  • University of Oxford
Academic advisors
  • Michael Foster
  • John Newport Langley
Doctoral students
  • John Farquhar Fulton
  • John Carew Eccles
  • Howard Florey
Influences
  • Johannes Müller
  • Thomas Ashe
  • Jean Fernel
  • Thomas Browne
  • Rudolf Virchow
Influenced
  • Sir John Eccles
  • Ragnar Granit
  • Alfred Fröhlich
  • E.M. Tansey
  • Archibald Hill
  • Wilder Penfield