ID
2510
Nationality
British
Occupation
Physician
Medicine
Nobel Prize winner
Summary
Late-deafened. Was President of the Royal Society in 1920 and a member of the Order of Merit. Shared the 1932 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1932, for his research on the nervous system and the functions of neurons. Knighted. A crater on the Moon is named in his honor.
References
Silence of the Spheres, p.103.
Dates
27 November 1857-1952