Sherrington, Sir Charles Scott (1857–1952), a British physiologist. For his research on the neuron, he shared the 1932 Nobel Prize for physiology with Edgar D. Adrian. Sherrington graduated from Cambridge and taught at several universities. He was knighted in 1922. His work The Integrative Action of the Nervous System (1906) became a classic in physiology.
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