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ECCLES, Sir John Carew (1903 – 1997)

ECCLES, Sir John Carew (1903 – 1997)

1903 – 1997

2 entries in the GMN corpus.

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1963 CE

#1310.2

The ionic mechanism of postsynaptic inhibition. IN: Prix Nobel in 1963, pp. 261-83.

Eccles shared the Nobel Prize with A. L. Hodgkin and A. F. Huxley in 1963. See No. 1310.1.

1989 CE

#7071

Evolution of the brain: Creation of the self.

A pioneering work on the evolution of the human mind. Eccles synthesized comparative anatomy--especially brain anatomy--with evidence from paleontology and archaeology, and brain physiology (especially the physiology …