Sir John Carew Eccles was an Australian neurophysiologist and philosopher, born in Melbourne in 1903. He studied medicine at the University of Melbourne and, as a Rhodes Scholar, took his doctorate at Oxford under Charles Scott Sherrington. He later held posts at the University of Otago in New Zealand, at the John Curtin School of Medical Research of the Australian National University, and at Northwestern University. In the early 1950s he and his colleagues used the stretch reflex to study excitatory and inhibitory signals at the synapse. For this work he won the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, shared with Andrew Huxley and Alan Lloyd Hodgkin.
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Sir John Carew Eccles (27 January 1903
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was an Australian neurophysiologist and philosopher
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He grew up there with his two sisters and his parents
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who won the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on the synapse
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was an Australian neurophysiologist and philosopher
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was an Australian neurophysiologist and philosopher
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John Curtin School of Medical Research (JCSMR) of the Australian National University
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he became a professor at the University of Otago in New Zealand
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won the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on the synapse
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