The Nomination Database for the Nobel Prize
in Physiology or Medicine, 1901-1953

Year:	1928
Number:	57-0
Nominee:
Name:	Sir Charles S Sherrington
Gender:	M
Year, birth:	1857
Year, death:	1952
Profession/Category:	prof physiology
University:	Oxford
City:	Oxford
Country:	GB (UNITED KINGDOM)
Received prize:	med 1932 »
Motivation:	Work on the physiology of the nervous system: reciprocal antagonist innervation, plastic tonus, decerebrate rigidity, role of reflexes in movement and posture, "recruitment" and myotactic reflexes.
Nominator:
Name:	O Pico Estrada
Profession/Category:	prof physiology
University:	Buenos Aires
City:	Buenos Aires
Country:	AR (ARGENTINA)
Evaluation:	No