The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1932
Awarded on: 1932-10-27
"for their discoveries regarding the functions of neurons"
Affiliations:
- University of Oxford – Oxford, United Kingdom
Sir Charles Scott Sherrington
Born: 1857-11-27 in London, United Kingdom
Gender: male
Field: English footballer, neurophysiologist and Nobel Prize recipient (1857–1952)
Biography
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 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.