NOBEL PRIZE
MEDICINE AND PHYSIOLOGY ENGLISH SCIENTISTS SHARE (Received October CS, 5.5 p.m.) STOC KHOLM. Oct. 27 The Nobel prize for medicine and physiology for 1932 has been jointly awarded to Sir Charles Sherrington and Dr. Edgar Douglas Adrian, for discoveries in connection with the function of neurons (nervo cells). Sir Charles Sherrington is Waynflete Professor of Physiology, Oxford, and a momber of the Medical Research Council of tho Privy Council. Ho has had a distinguished career in science and his publications include " The Integrative Action of the Nervous System." He has contributed many papers to the Royal and other scientific societies, especially on the brain and nervous system. Dr. Edgar D. Adrian is Foulcvton Professor of the Royal Society and Follow of Trinity College. Cambridge. Among his publications are " The Basis of Sensation," and papers on (lie physiology of the nervous system in the Journal of Physiology, Brain, etc.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21326, 29 October 1932, Page 9
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150NOBEL PRIZE New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21326, 29 October 1932, Page 9
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