Charles Sherrington Facts
Charles Sherrington Facts
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| He was born in Islington, London, England. |
| Sherrington and his two brothers were thought to be the sons of James Norton Sherrington and Anne Brooks, they were the illegitimate sons of Caleb Rose and Anne Brooks. |
| Caleb Rose was a classical scholar and an archaeologist. He had many things that interested Sherrington in art and geology like paintings, books, and geological specimens. |
| Many intellectuals visited Caleb Rose's house often, so Sherrington met a lot of them. This environment harbored Sherrington's love for learning. |
| Anne and Caleb didn't get married until 1880 after the death of Caleb's first wife. |
| When he was young, Sherrington developed a great love of art. He was very interested in the different types of art as well. |
| Sherrington was pushed into the field of medicine by Sherrington's biological father, but then the family hit financial troubles and he didn't enroll in medical school. |
| His two brothers went to study law instead of medicine as well. |
| Sherrington was a neurophysiologist, histologist, bacteriologist, and a pathologist. |
| In 1884 Sherrington left England for Strasburg. He worked with Goltz who had a very positive influence on him just like many others. |
| On August 27, 1891 Sherrington married Ethel Mary Wright. |
| By 1913 Sherrington had been given a job at Oxford. He had been waiting for this for years. |
| He was a Nobel laureate and president of the Royal Society in the early 1920s. |
| He received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Edgar Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian, in 1932 for their work on the functions of neurons. |
| Prior to the work of Sherrington and Adrian, it was widely accepted that reflexes occurred as isolated activity within a reflex arc. Sherrington received the prize for showing that reflexes require integrated activation and demonstrated reciprocal innervation of muscles. |
| This is known as Sherrington's law, also known as Sherrington's law of reciprocal innervation. |
| Sherrington published 6 books in his life. Many of them are still used today. |
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