BIOLOGIST

Charles Scott Sherrington

1952 - 1952

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Sir Charles Scott Sherrington (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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Charles Scott Sherrington has received more than 339,397 page views. His biography is available in 58 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 57 in 2019). Charles Scott Sherrington is the 126th most popular biologist (up from 149th in 2019), the 766th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 943rd in 2019) and the 19th most popular British Biologist.

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  • 58

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  • 12.20

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  • 2.92

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Charles Scott Sherrington ranks 126 out of 1,097. Before him are Har Gobind Khorana, Macfarlane Burnet, Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg, Martinus Beijerinck, Ludwig von Bertalanffy, and Othenio Abel. After him are August Grisebach, Christiaan Hendrik Persoon, Gaspard Bauhin, Erwin Neher, Antoine-Augustin Parmentier, and Giovanni Sartori.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1952, Charles Scott Sherrington ranks 51. Before him are Fuad II of Egypt, İbrahim Tatlıses, Mr. T, David Hasselhoff, Desireless, and Jean-Paul Gaultier. After him are George Papandreou, Umberto Tozzi, Salam Fayyad, Didier Pironi, Ari Vatanen, and Mahamadou Issoufou. Among people deceased in 1952, Charles Scott Sherrington ranks 30. Before him are Jürgen Stroop, Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, Charles Maurras, George Santayana, Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg, and Heinrich von Vietinghoff. After him are Rudolf Slánský, Charles Lightoller, John Langenus, Bedřich Hrozný, Clark L. Hull, and René Grousset.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Charles Scott Sherrington ranks 766 out of 8,785. Before him are Bernard Hill (1944), Margaret of York (1446), John Fowles (1926), Samuel Richardson (1689), Henry Fielding (1707), and William Adelin (1103). After him are John E. Walker (1941), Judith of Flanders (844), Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury (1473), Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany (1853), Rachel Weisz (1970), and Ian McDiarmid (1944).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, Charles Scott Sherrington ranks 19. Before him are Archibald Hill (1886), Erasmus Darwin (1731), Philip Sclater (1829), Oliver Smithies (1925), Julian Huxley (1887), and John Gurdon (1933). After him are John Ray (1627), William Carey (1761), William Bateson (1861), Martin Evans (1941), John Boyd Orr (1880), and Anna Atkins (1799).

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