Portrait of Charles Sherrington
Date
1922
Sitter
Charles Scott Sherrington (1857 - 1952, British) , Physiologist
Creator - Organisation
J. Russell & Sons, Photographer
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Material
Technique
Dimensions
height: (print) 154mm
width: (print) 111mm
height: (mount) 275mm
width: (mount) 200mm
width: (print) 111mm
height: (mount) 275mm
width: (mount) 200mm
Subject
Description
Formal head and shoulders portrait of Charles Sherrington, seated left as viewed, looking into the camera.
Inscribed in pencil: ‘Sir C. Sherrington 92600a, FRS’
Sherrington was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1893. He served as Vice President from 1917-1918 and from 1925-1926, and President from 1920-1925. He won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Edgar Adrian in 1932 for their work on the function of neurons.
Inscribed in pencil: ‘Sir C. Sherrington 92600a, FRS’
Sherrington was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1893. He served as Vice President from 1917-1918 and from 1925-1926, and President from 1920-1925. He won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Edgar Adrian in 1932 for their work on the function of neurons.
Related fellows
Edgar Douglas Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian of Cambridge (1889 - 1977, British)
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