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John Eccles was an Australian neurophysiologist who lived from 1903 to 1997 and made important discoveries about how nerve cells communicate with each other. His work helped explain the fundamental mechanisms of the nervous system, which is essential to understanding how the brain and body function.
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John Eccles (1668 – 12 January 1735) was an English composer. Born in London, eldest son of professional musician Solomon Eccles, John Eccles was appointed to the King's Private Musick in 1694, and in 1700 became Master of the King's Musick. Also in 1700 he finished second in a competition to write music for William Congreve's masque The Judgement of Paris (John Weldon won). Eccles was very active as a composer for the theatre, and from the 1690s wrote a large amount of incidental music inclu
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Nobel Prize
- The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine1963
“for their discoveries concerning the ionic mechanisms involved in excitation and inhibition in the peripheral and central portions of the nerve cell membrane”
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Sir John Carew Eccles, Order of Australia (* 27. Januar 1903 in Melbourne; † 2. Mai 1997 in Contra, Bezirk Locarno) war ein australischer Physiologe, Neurowissenschaftler und Philosoph. Mit seinen Forschungen zur Signalweiterleitung in Nervenzellen trug er entscheidend dazu bei, die Vorgänge im menschlichen Gehirn aufzuklären. Dafür erhielt er 1963 mit Andrew Fielding Huxley and Alan Lloyd Hodgkin den Nobelpreis für Physiologie oder Medizin.
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