John Eccles (neurophysiologist)
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Sir John Carew Eccles using a microscope in a laboratory. Photographed in November 1963. Image courtesy of John Curtin School of Medical Research, Australian National University.
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| Born | John Carew Eccles 27 January 1903 Melbourne, Australia |
| Died | 2 May 1997 (aged 94) Tenero-Contra, Switzerland |
| Residence | Tenero-Contra, Switzerland |
| Citizenship | Australia, United Kingdom, Switzerland |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Fields | Philosophy of Mind |
| Alma mater |
University of Melbourne (M.D.) Magdalen College, Oxford (D.Phil.) |
| Doctoral advisor | C. S. Sherrington |
| Known for | Work on the synapse |
| Influences |
C. S. Sherrington Karl Popper |
| Influenced |
Friedrich Beck Platon Kostiuk |
| Notable awards | Knight Bachelor (1958) Royal Medal (1962) Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1963) Companion of the Order of Australia (1990) |
| Spouse | Irene Frances Miller Eccles (1928-1968; divorced), Helena T. Eccles (1968-1997; his death) |
Sir John Carew Eccles AC FRS FRACP FRSNZ FAA (27 January 1903 – 2 May 1997) was an Australian neurophysiologist and philosopher who won the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on the synapse. He shared the prize with Andrew Huxley and Alan Lloyd Hodgkin.
Eccles was born in Melbourne, Australia. He grew up there with his two sisters and his parents: William and Mary Carew Eccles (both teachers, who home schooled him until he was 12). He initially attended Warrnambool High School (now Warrnambool College) (where a science wing is named in his honour), then completed his final year of schooling at Melbourne High School. Aged 17, he was awarded a senior scholarship to study medicine at the University of Melbourne. As a medical undergraduate, he was never able to find a satisfactory explanation for the interaction of mind and body; he started to think about becoming a neuroscientist. He graduated (with first class honours) in 1925, and was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to study under Charles Scott Sherrington at Magdalen College, Oxford University, where he received his Doctor of Philosophy in 1929.
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