| Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine | |
| Year: | 1928 |
| Number: | 70 - 0 |
| Nominee: |
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| 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 segmental innervation, the physiology of reflex action, "decerebrate rigidity" and tonus, analysis of the effects of strychnine and tetanus toxin, and on the function of the cerebral cortex. |
| Nominator: |
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| Name: | Pol Gerard |
| Gender: | M |
| Profession: | prof histology |
| City: | Brussels |
| Country: | BELGIUM (BE) |