Edgar Adrian

The Right Honourable
The Lord Adrian
OM FRS
The Right Honourable The Lord Adrian OM FRS
49th President of the Royal Society
	In office; 1950–1955
Preceded by	Sir Robert Robinson
Succeeded by	Sir Cyril Norman Hinshelwood
Personal details
Born	30 November 1889; Hampstead, London, England
Died	4 August 1977 (aged 87); Cambridge, England
Spouse	Hester Adrian (m. 1923)
Children	Anne Keynes; Richard Adrian (1927–1995); Jennet Campbell (b. 1927);
Alma mater	Trinity College, Cambridge; St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College;
Awards	Fellow of the Royal Society; Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1932); Royal Medal (1934); Copley Medal (1946); Albert Medal (1953); Karl Spencer Lashley Award (1961)
	Scientific career
Fields	Biology (electrophysiology)
Institutions	University of Cambridge

Edgar Douglas Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian OM FRS (30 November 1889 – 4 August 1977) was an English electrophysiologist and recipient of the 1932 Nobel Prize for Physiology, won jointly with Sir Charles Sherrington for work on the function of neurons. He provided experimental evidence for the all-or-none law of nerves.

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