Charles Scott Sherrington Scientist

Sir Charles Scott Sherrington, OM, GBE, PRS (27 November 1857 – 4 March 1952) was an English neurophysiologist, histologist, bacteriologist, and a pathologist, Nobel laureate and president of the Royal Society in the early 1920s. He received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Edgar Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian, in 1932 for their work on the functions of neurons. Prior to the work of Sherrington and Adrian, it was widely accepted that reflexes occurred as isolated activity within a reflex arc. Sherrington received the prize for showing that reflexes require integrated activation and demonstrated reciprocal innervation of muscles (Sherrington's law).

Personal facts

Birth date	November 27, 1857
Birth place	England , London , Islington
Nationality	United Kingdom
Date of death	November 27, 1857
Place of death	England , Sussex , Eastbourne
Education	Royal College of Surgeons of England Ipswich School Gonville and Caius College Cambridge

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Scientist

academic advisor	John Newport Langley Michael Foster (physiologist)
awards	Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
doctoral student	John Eccles (neurophysiologist) Alfred Fröhlich John Farquhar Fulton
Field of study	Histology Neurology Physiology Bacteriology Pathology
influenced	John Eccles (neurophysiologist) Wilder Penfield Ragnar Granit Howard Florey Archibald Hill
influenced by	W. H. Gaskell Rudolf Virchow Johannes Peter Müller David Ferrier Thomas Ashe (poet)