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Born November 30, 1889 • London • England
Died August 4, 1977 (aged 87) • London • England
Title / Office baron (1955)
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (1932)
Subjects Of Study brain • nerve impulse • sense organ

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Lord Adrian. 1956.
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Sir Henry Dale, 1956.
Sir Henry Dale
British physiologist
John O'Keefe
John O’Keefe
British-American neuroscientist
Sir Charles Sherrington.
Sir Charles Scott Sherrington
British physiologist
Andrew Fielding Huxley
Sir Andrew Fielding Huxley
British physiologist
Sir Alan Hodgkin
Sir Alan Hodgkin
British biophysicist
Frederick Gowland Hopkins
Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins
British biochemist
David Hunter Hubel
American biologist
Peter J. Ratcliffe
British physician and scientist
Nurse, Paul
Paul Nurse
British scientist
Sir John Robert Vane
British biochemist
Lord Florey.
Howard Walter Florey, Baron Florey
Australian pathologist
Sir Bernard Katz
British physiologist
Crick, Francis
Francis Crick
British biophysicist
Peter B. Medawar, 1960.
Sir Peter B. Medawar
British zoologist
Sir James Black
Scottish pharmacologist
Moser, Edvard I.
Edvard I. Moser
Norwegian neuroscientist
Moser, May-Britt
May-Britt Moser
Norwegian neuroscientist
Elizabeth Blackburn
Elizabeth Blackburn
American molecular biologist and biochemist
Torsten Wiesel
Swedish biologist
Sir John Eccles.
Sir John Carew Eccles
Australian physiologist