Nomination Archive


Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Year:1923
Number:19 - 9
 
Nominee:
Name:Sir Charles S Sherrington
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1857
Year, Death:1952
Profession:prof physiology
University:University of Oxford
City:Oxford
Country:UNITED KINGDOM (GB)
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1932
 
Motivation:Work on the spinal nerve roots, spinal reflex action, tonic and phasic systems of innervation, the integrative action of the nervous system, the functions of the cerebral cortex and cerebral localization.
 
Nominator:
Name:Sir Frederick G Hopkins
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1861
Year, Death:1947
University:Medical Research Council
City:London
Country:UNITED KINGDOM (GB)
 
Comments: Nomination was made jointly in the same letter by the following members of the Medical Research Council in London, GB: H. Head, V. Goschen, chairman, W.B. Leishman, D.N. Paton, F.W. Andrewes, T.R. Elliott, C. Wallace, F.G. Hopkins, W. Graham, W.M. Fletscher.