John Carew Eccles

Sir John Carew Eccles (January 27, 1903–May 2, 1997) was an Australian neurophysiologist who won the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on the synapse. He shared the prize together with Andrew Fielding Huxley and Alan Lloyd Hodgkin.

Biography

Eccles was born in Melbourne, Australia. He attended Melbourne High School and graduated from Melbourne University in 1925. He was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to study under Charles Scott Sherrington at Oxford University, where he received his Doctor of Philosophy in 1929. In 1937 Eccles returned to Australia, where he worked on military research during World War II. After the war, he became a professor at the University of Otago in New Zealand. From 1952 to 1962 he worked as a professor at the Australian National University. He won the Australian of the Year Award in 1963, the same year he won the Nobel Prize. In 1966 he moved to the United States to work at the Institute for Biomedical Research in Chicago, Illinois. Unhappy with the working conditions there, he left to become a professor at the State University of New York at Buffalo from 1968 until he retired in 1975. After retirement, he moved to Switzerland and wrote on the mind-body problem. He died in 1997 in Locarno, Switzerland.

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Melbourne - Melbourne High School - Melbourne University - 1925 - Rhodes Scholarship - Charles Scott Sherrington - Oxford University - Doctor of Philosophy - 1929 - 1937 - World War II - University of Otago - New Zealand - 1952 - 1962 - Australian National University - Australian of the Year Award - 1966 - United States - Institute for Biomedical Research - Chicago, Illinois - State University of New York at Buffalo - 1968 - 1975 - Switzerland - Mind-body problem - Locarno

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