A new $60M animal research building was opened at the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, and named the Eccles Building
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John Carew Eccles
Sir John Carew Eccles was an Australian neurophysiologist and philosopher who won the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on the synapse. He shared the prize with Andrew Huxley and Alan Lloyd Hodgkin.
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science · Australian neurophysiologist (1903–1997) · philosopher · neuroscientist · physician · professor · neurologist · physiologist · researcher · also John Carew Eccles, John Eccles (neurophysiologist), Sir John Carew Eccles, John Eccles, Eccles
Born 27 January 1903 · Died 2 May 1997 · Q273223
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2003· 1 entry
“Eccles' Model of the Self Controlling Its Brain : The Irrelevance of Dualist-Interactionism”
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1997· 3 entries
Died 1997-05-02.
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“In order that a "self" may exist there must be some continuity of mental experiences and, particularly, continuity bridging gaps of unconsciousness. For example, the continuity of our "self" is resumed after sleep, anaesthesia, and the temporary amnesias of concussion and convulsions.”
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“I can now rejoice even in the falsification of a cherished theory, because even this is a scientific success.”
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1992· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Madrid Complutense (1992).
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1990· 3 entries
Awarded Companion of the Order of Australia (1990).
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Was appointed a Companion of the Order of Australia (AC) in recognition of service to science, particularly in the field of neurophysiology
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“A unitary hypothesis of mind-brain interaction in the cerebral cortex”
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1981· 1 entry
Eccles became a founding member of the World Cultural Council
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1972· 1 entry
Awarded Annual Review Prize Lecture (1972).
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1968· 1 entry
Eccles married Helena Táboríková (1925–2017); a fellow neuropsychologist and M
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1964· 1 entry
Became an honorary member to the American Philosophical Society, and in 1966 he moved to the United States to work as a professor at the Institute for Biomedical Research at the Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago
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1963· 4 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — for their discoveries concerning the ionic mechanisms involved in excitation and inhibition in the peripheral and central portions of the nerve cell membrane.
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Won Matthew Flinders Medal and Lecture (1963).
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Awarded Australian of the Year (1963).
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1963).
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1962· 1 entry
Won Royal Medal (1962).
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1961· 2 entries
Won Baly Medal (1961).
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Won James Cook Medal (1961).
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1958· 2 entries
Awarded Knight Bachelor (1958).
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In recognition of services to physiological research
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1953· 1 entry
Awarded Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science (1953).
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1950· 1 entry
Awarded Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi (1950).
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1937· 1 entry
Eccles returned to Australia, where he worked on military research during World War II
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1925· 2 entries
Awarded Rhodes Scholarship (1925).
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And was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to study under Charles Scott Sherrington at Magdalen College, Oxford University, where he received his Doctor of Philosophy in 1929
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1903· 1 entry
Born 1903-01-27.
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