Working with C. S. Sherrington, 1918–24
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Working with C. S. Sherrington, 1918–24
Sir Charles Sherrington FRS (1857–1952) was one of the most notable neurophysiologists of the twentieth century. After studies in Cambridge and London, he became a lecturer in physiology at St Thomas’s Hospital, London, then Professor of Physiology at Liverpool in 1895, and then Waynflete Professor of Physiology at Oxford (1913–35). His career focused on the structure and function of the nervou...
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عنوان ژورنال: Notes and Records of the Royal Society
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0035-9149,1743-0178
DOI: 10.1098/rsnr.2007.0037