Nomination Archive


Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Year:1928
Number:102 - 0
 
Nominee:
Name:Sir Charles S Sherrington
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1857
Year, Death:1952
Profession:prof physiology
University:University of Oxford
City:Oxford
Country:UNITED KINGDOM (GB)
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1932
 
Motivation:Work on the physiology of the nervous system: reciprocal antagonist innervation, plastic tonus, decerebrate rigidity, role of reflexes in movement and posture, "recruitment" and myotactic reflexes.
 
Nominator:
Name:Eugenio Tanzi
Gender:M
Profession:prof psychiatry and neurology
University:University of Florence
City:Florence
Country:ITALY (IT)