“for their discoveries concerning the ionic mechanisms involved in excitation and inhibition in the peripheral and central portions of the nerve cell membrane”
Sir John Carew Eccles was an Australian neurophysiologist. He shared the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Alan Hodgkin and Andrew Huxley for their discoveries concerning the ionic mechanisms involved in excitation and inhibition in the peripheral and central portions of the nerve cell membrane.
- Field
- Biology · Neuroscience
- Lifespan
- 1903–1997