Charles Sherrington
From Philosopedia
Sherrington, Charles Scott [Sir] (27 November 1857 - 4 March 1952)
Sherrington was an English neurophysiologist who was educated at Cambridge. As a physician, he did important work in the study of cholera and of diphtheria and tetanus antitoxins, resulting in the improvement of health and safety conditions in British factories during World War I.
He was knighted in 1922 and with E. D. Adrian Sherrington shared the 1932 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their discoveries regarding the function of the neuron.
Although he did not call himself a materialist, he virtually recommends it in his works. In The Brain and Its Mechanism (1933), Sherrington holds that in time science will show “how the brain does its thinking.”
Sherrington was an honorary associate of the Rationalist Press Association.
