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date: 29 November 2023

Sherrington, Sir Charles Scott (1857–1952) 

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Who's Who in the Twentieth Century
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British neurophysiologist, whose work on the mechanisms of integration in the nervous system earned him the 1932 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. He was knighted in ... ...

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