| Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine | |
| Year: | 1927 |
| Number: | 47 - 0 |
| Nominee: |
|
| Name: | Charles S Sherrington |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1857 |
| Year, Death: | 1952 |
| Profession: | prof physiology |
| University: | University of Oxford |
| City: | Oxford |
| Country: | UNITED KINGDOM (GB) |
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1932 | |
| Motivation: | Work on the physiology of the nervous system: reciprocal antagonist innervation, "rebound" stimulation, plastic tonus, decerebrate rigidity, role of reflexes in movement and posture, importance of proprioceptors for the function of the rhythmic centra, "recruitment" and myotactic reflexes. |
| Nominator: |
|
| Name: | Rudolf Magnus |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1873 |
| Year, Death: | 1927 |
| Profession: | prof pharmacology |
| University: | Utrecht University |
| City: | Utrecht |
| Country: | NETHERLANDS (NL) |
| Comments: | H. Gertz evaluation included R. Magnus and A. de Kleijn. |