Charles Scott Sherrington

Sir Charles Scott Sherrington
OM GBE FRS FRCP FRCS
Sir Charles Scott Sherrington OM GBE FRS FRCP FRCS
43rd President of the Royal Society
	In office; 1920–1925
Preceded by	J. J. Thomson
Succeeded by	Ernest Rutherford
Personal details
Born	27 November 1857; Islington, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Died	4 March 1952 (aged 94); Eastbourne, Sussex, England, United Kingdom
Citizenship	British
Alma mater	Ipswich School; Royal College of Surgeons of England; University of Cambridge;
Awards	FRS (1893); Royal Medal (1905); Copley Medal (1927); Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1932);
	Scientific career
Fields	Physiology; Pathology; Histology; Neurology; Bacteriology;
Institutions	King's College, London; University of Liverpool; University of Oxford;
Academic advisors	Michael Foster; John Newport Langley;
Doctoral students	John Farquhar Fulton; John Carew Eccles; Howard Florey;

Sir Charles Scott Sherrington OM GBE FRS FRCP FRCS (27 November 1857 – 4 March 1952) was a British neurophysiologist. His experimental research established many aspects of contemporary neuroscience, including the concept of the spinal reflex as a system involving connected neurons (the "neuron doctrine"), and the ways in which signal transmission between neurons can be potentiated or depotentiated. Sherrington himself coined the word "synapse" to define the connection between two neurons. His book The Integrative Action of the Nervous System (1906) is a synthesis of this work, in recognition of which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1932 (along with Edgar Adrian).

In addition to his work in physiology, Sherrington did research in histology, bacteriology, and pathology. He was president of the Royal Society in the early 1920s.

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