John Eccles

1903 - 1997

country of citizenship: Australia

languages spoken, written or signed: English

educated at: Magdalen College, Melbourne High School, University of Melbourne, Warrnambool College

occupation: philosopher, neuroscientist, physician, professor, neurologist, physiologist, researcher

award received: Fellow of the Royal Society, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Royal medal, Australian of the Year, Knight Bachelor, Annual Review Prize Lecture, James Cook Medal, honorary doctor of the University of Madrid Complutense, Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi, Rhodes Scholarship, Baly Medal, Companion of the Order of Australia, Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians, Matthew Flinders Medal and Lecture

position held: professor

influenced by: Charles Scott Sherrington

Sir John Carew Eccles (27 January 1903 – 2 May 1997) was an Australian neurophysiologist and philosopher who won the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on the synapse. He shared the prize with Andrew Huxley and Alan Lloyd Hodgkin. Source: Wikipedia (en)