The Right Honourable
The Lord Adrian
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black and white portrait photograph of Edgar Adrian, wearing a shirt, tie and jacket
49th President of the Royal Society
In office
1950–1955
Preceded bySir Robert Robinson
Succeeded bySir Cyril Norman Hinshelwood
Personal details
Born(1889-11-30)30 November 1889
Hampstead, London, England
Died4 August 1977(1977-08-04)(aged 87)
Cambridge, England
NationalityBritish
Spouse(s)Hester Adrian (m. 1923)
Children
  • Anne Keynes
  • Richard Adrian (1927–1995)
  • Jennet Campbell (b. 1927)
Alma materTrinity College, Cambridge
AwardsFellow of the Royal Society
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1932
Royal Medal (1934)
Copley Medal (1946)
Albert Medal (1953)
Scientific career
FieldsBiology (electrophysiology)
InstitutionsUniversity of Cambridge