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John Galsworthy did not deliver a Nobel Lecture.

At any given time, our nervous system faces an enormous signal control task. Acting as the command centre for the entire body, it is charged with generating and processing the host of different messages sent through nerve cells that allow us to move, think and respond to any given stimulus. Managing this constant and complex…

Nobel Lecture, December 12, 1932 The Activity of the Nerve Fibres The sense organs respond to certain changes in their environment by sending messages or signals to the central nervous system. The signals travel rapidly over the long threads of protoplasm which form the sensory nerve fibres, and fresh signals are sent out by the…

Edgar Adrian’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1932 Your Royal Highness, your Excellencies, my Lords, Ladies and Gentlemen In my College at Cambridge – Trinity College – all of us know of Stockholm as the beautiful capital of a country which has a great history and is now in the forefront…

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Selected works From the Four Winds. – London : Unwin, 1897. – (as John Sinjohn) Jocelyn. – London : Duckworth, 1898. – (as John Sinjohn) Villa Rubein. – London : Duckworth, 1900. – (as John Sinjohn) A Man of Devon. – London : Blackwood, 1901. – (as John Sinjohn) The Island Pharisees. – London :…