Eccles

Ec·cles  (klz), Sir John Carew 1903-1997.

Australian physiologist. He shared a 1963 Nobel Prize for research on nerve cells.

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Eccles [ˈɛk^əlz]

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(Placename) a town in NW England, in Salford unitary authority, Greater Manchester. Pop.: 36 000 (1991)

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Eccles²

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(Biographies / Eccles, Sir John Carew (1903-1997) M, Australian, SCIENCE: physiologist) Sir John Carew. 1903-97, Australian physiologist: shared the Nobel prize for physiology (1963) with A. L. Hodgkin and A. F. Huxley for their work on conduction of nervous impulses

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Eccles - Australian physiologist noted for his research on the conduction of impulses by nerve cells (1903-1997) John Eccles, Sir John Carew Eccles