Edgar Douglas Adrian
1st Baron Adrian (1889–1977). Adrian was born in London and educated at Westminster School, where he became a King's Scholar at the end of his first term. Like his mentor ...
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A Dictionary of Scientists
..., Edgar Douglas , Baron Adrian of Cambridge (1889–1977) British neurophysiologist Adrian , a lawyer's son, was born in London and studied at Cambridge University and St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London, where he obtained his MD in 1915 . He returned to Cambridge in 1919 , was appointed professor of physiology in 1937 , and became the master of Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1951 , an office he retained until his retirement in 1965 . He was raised to the British peerage in 1955 . Adrian's greatest contribution to neurophysiology was his work on the...
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Y. Zotterman and O. L. Zangwill
The Oxford Companion to the Mind (2 ed.)
..., Edgar Douglas , 1st Baron Adrian ( 1889–1977 ). . Adrian was born in London and educated at Westminster School, where he became a King's Scholar at the end of his first term. Like his mentor at Cambridge, Keith Lucas ( 1879–1916 ), he at first studied classics but went over to science in his last year. He went up to Cambridge as a scholar of Trinity College, where he read medicine, and became a Fellow in 1913 . On the outbreak of war in 1914 , he completed his medical studies at St Bartholomew's Hospital, London. After qualifying, he...
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Oxford Dictionary of Scientific Quotations
...Edgar Douglas Adrian ( Lord Adrian ) 1889 – 1977 British physiologist We come back then to our records of nervous messages with a reasonable assurance that they do tell us what the message is like. It is a succession of brief waves of surface breakdown, each allowing a momentary leakage of ions from the nerve fibre. The waves can be set up so that they follow one another in rapid or in slow succession, and this is the only form of gradation of which the message is capable. Essentially the same kind of activity is found in all sorts of nerve fibres...
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A Dictionary of British History (3 ed.)
..., Edgar Douglas, 1st Baron Adrian ( 1889–1977 ). Scientist . Born in London, Adrian went to Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge. Specializing in physiology, he became a fellow of his college in 1913 and then spent the First World War treating cases of shell‐shock. Adrian returned to Cambridge in 1919 and published extensively on the nervous system. He shared the Nobel prize in 1932 , held the chair of physiology from 1937 to 1951 , and was master of Trinity from 1951 to 1965...
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J. A. Cannon
The Oxford Companion to British History (2 ed.)
..., Edgar Douglas, 1st Baron Adrian ( 1889–1977 ) . Scientist. Born in London, Adrian went to Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he read science. Specializing in physiology, he became a fellow of his college in 1913 and then, obtaining a medical degree in record time, spent the First World War treating nervous disorders and cases of shell-shock. Adrian returned to Cambridge in 1919 and published extensively on the nervous system. He shared the Nobel prize in 1932 , held the chair of physiology from 1937 to 1951 , and was master...
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The New Oxford Dictionary for Scientific Writers and Editors (2 ed.)
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The Oxford Companion to Australian Military History (2 ed.)
...the only Australian air Victoria Cross winner from the First World War, was appointed from the post of Deputy AOC (Air Officer Commanding) RAAF Headquarters in London to become AOC RAF Aden 1942–45 ; he did not return to Australia but was retired in 1946 . Air Vice-Marshal Adrian Cole ( 1895–1966 ) was AOC RAF Northern Ireland in 1942–43 . During the period of Australian commitment in South-East Asia, RAAF officers also held senior RAF posts in the region. Air Vice-Marshal (later Air Chief Marshal Sir) Frederick Scherger ( 1904–84 ) was AOC RAF Malaya...
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Nicola Watson
The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare (2 ed.)
... Davies, Douglas Brooks , Fielding, Dickens, Gosse, Iris Murdoch and Oedipal Hamlet (1989) Novy, Marianne (ed.), Cross-cultural Performances: Differences in Women’s Re-visions of Shakespeare (1993) Novy, Marianne , Engaging with Shakespeare: Responses of George Eliot and Other Women Novelists (1994) Noyes, R. G. , The Thespian Mirror: Shakespeare in the Eighteenth-Century Novel (1953) Osborne, Laurie E. , ‘Romancing the Bard’, in Christy Desmet and Robert Sawyer (eds.), Shakespeare and Appropriation (1999) Poole, Adrian (ed.), ...
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Lars Erik Böttiger
The Oxford Companion to Medicine (3 ed.)
...Eijkman (Netherlands) Frederick Gowland Hopkins (UK) Discovery of the antineuritic vitamin Discovery of growth-stimulating vitamins 1930 Karl Landsteiner (Austria) Human blood groups 1931 Otto Warburg (Germany) Intracellular respiration 1932 Charles Sherrington and Edgar Douglas Adrian (UK) Function of neurones 1933 Thomas Hunt Morgan (USA) Function of chromosomes 1934 George Hoyt Whipple , George Richards Minot , and William Parry Murphy (USA) Liver treatment of pernicious anemia 1935 Hans Spemann (Germany) Embryonic development 1936 Henry Dale ...
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Brian C. J. Moore
The Oxford Companion to the Mind (2 ed.)
...is transmitted in each of these in the form of brief electrical impulses, called spikes or action potentials. Thus transmission takes place in an all-or-none fashion; the size of the spikes does not vary, and only the presence or absence of a spike is important. ( See Adrian, Edgar Douglas .) The vibrations on the basilar membrane are transformed to spikes by rows of special cells, called hair cells , which rest on the basilar membrane. The hair cells are among the most delicate structures in the cochlea, and they can be destroyed by intense sound, lack of...
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The Oxford Companion to the Brontes
...They took with them much of the Glass Town formula: the concept of islands, the wild moorland scenery, a powerful princess, the struggles of a predominantly royalist world, and even some names. The name ‘Almeida’ , for example, reappears in Gondal as ‘Almeda’. The names Adrian and Julius also derive from Glass Town; and the young lovers Alexander and Zenobia suggest Charlotte's and Branwell's Alexander Percy and his third wife Zenobia. Much of the Duke of Zamorna 's early ‘Scottish’ past, including his marriage and desertion of Lady Helen...
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Encyclopedia of Aesthetics
...The emergence in the 1970s of performative and conceptually based art activities and of collaborative work in alternative spaces, or in the “streets” like the performances facilitated by Adrian Piper on the East Coast and Suzanne Lacy on the West Coast were often intrinsically theoretical. Similarly, artist-critics like Lucy Lippard , Martha Rossler , Adrian Piper, Coco Fusco , and Trinh T. Minh-ha have merged theory and practice in their studio work as well as in their critical writings. At the “cutting edge” of contemporary practices,...
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The Oxford Guide to Literary Britain & Ireland (3 ed.)
...The courtyard was entirely filled with people. A restrained noise rose from them, like the grinding of the sea at slack water. They made slight surges forward, then back, but always gaining an inch. In Sue Townsend's Secret Diary of Adrian Mole ( 1982 ), the British Museum is the unfortunate recipient of a visit from Adrian's class, 4–D (who ‘run beserk, laughing at nude statues and dodging curators’), a visit ending with a teacher drafting her resignation and the coach driver being led off by police. The next day's diary entry begins, ‘Keep having anxiety...
