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Sir Charles Scott Sherrington was a British neurophysiologist and academic. His experimental research established many aspects of contemporary neuroscience, including the concept of the spinal reflex as a system involving connected neurons, and how signal transmission between neurons can be potentiated or depotentiated. Sherrington himself coined the word "synapse" to define the connection between…
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Born 27 November 1857 · Died 4 March 1952 · Q213504
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After some hundreds of years of experience we think that we have learned here in Oxford how to teach what is known. But now with the undeniable upsurge of scientific research, we cannot continue to rely on the mere fact that we have learned how to teach what is known. We must learn to teach the best attitude to what is not yet known. This also may take centuries to acquire, but we cannot escape this new challenge, nor do we want to.
[h]e taught one that in all things only the best is good enough.
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“After some hundreds of years of experience we think that we have learned here in Oxford how to teach what is known. But now with the undeniable upsurge of scientific research, we cannot continue to rely on the mere fact that we have learned how to teach what is known. We must learn to teach the best attitude to what is not yet known. This also may take centuries to acquire, but we cannot escape this new challenge, nor do we want to.”
“[h]e taught one that in all things only the best is good enough.”
“to appraise them is not a congenial task.”
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“desistence from action may be as truly active as is the taking of action.”
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Died 1952-03-04.
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Sherrington's mental faculties were crystal clear up to the time of his sudden death on 4 March 1952, which was caused by a sudden heart failure at age 94.
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Speaking of his condition, Sherrington said, "old age isn't pleasant[,] one can't do things for oneself." The arthritis put Sherrington in a nursing home in the year before his death, in 1951.
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Awarded doctor honoris causa from the University of Lyon (1946).
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Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — for their discoveries regarding the functions of neurons.
Awarded Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1932).
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Awarded doctor honoris causa from the University of Paris (1928).
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Awarded honorary doctorate from the University of Strasbourg (1927).
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Won Copley Medal (1927).
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Career landmark: President of the Royal Society (1920–1925).
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At the first possible moment after Sherrington arrived at Oxford and the end of the War
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This was a compendium of ten of Sherrington's Silliman lectures, delivered at Yale University in 1904
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Won Royal Medal (1905).
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Royal Medal of the Royal Society of London
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Awarded Silliman Memorial Lectures (1904).
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Won Baly Medal (1899).
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Won Croonian Medal and Lecture (1897).
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The word itself suggested by classicist A
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Discovered that muscle spindles initiated the stretch reflex
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Sherrington was appointed as superintendent of the Brown Institute for Advanced Physiological and Pathological Research of the University of London, a center for human and animal physiological and pathological research
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Sherrington added the title of L
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Sherrington went to Italy to again investigate a cholera outbreak
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Obtained a First Class in the Natural Science Tripos with the mark of distinction
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Langley and Sherrington reported on their findings in a paper
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Although Anne and Caleb did not marry until after the death of his wife in 1880
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And the couple were married in 1880 after Caleb's first wife had died
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Born 1857-11-27.
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