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Also known as John Carew Eccles, Sir John Carew Eccles

Australisch neurofysioloog (1903-1997)

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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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Person · Open Library

Died
1735
Works
42

Top works

  • The loves of Mars and Venus
  • John Eccles - Court Odes
  • John Eccles - Incidental Music, Part 3
  • Wonder of Being Human Our Brain and Our MI
  • John Eccles - Incidental Music, Part 2

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Active from
1668
Active to
1735-01-12

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
18,293
Total plays
54,218

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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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5 total works indexed

  1. Generalized Gradient Approximation Made Simple

    · 1996 · cited 204,252x

  2. Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold

    · 2021 · cited 43,497x

  3. Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology

    · 2000 · cited 36,874x

  4. Matplotlib: A 2D Graphics Environment

    · 2007 · cited 35,518x

  5. The MOS 36-ltem Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36)

    · 1992 · cited 29,113x

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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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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Given name
John
Gender
male
Citizenship
Australia
Place of birth
Melbourne
Place of death
Tenero-Contra
Occupation
researcher
Position held
professor
Languages spoken
English language
Doctoral student
Stephen Kuffler
Field of work
neurophysiology
Image
Sir John Eccles Wellcome L0026812.jpg
Work location
Oxford
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name in kana
ジョン・カルー・エクルズ
Erdős number
3
Commons category
John Eccles
date of birth
1903-01-27
date of death
1997-05-02
different from
John Eccles
name in native language
John Carew Eccles
interested in
neurophysiology
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