English footballer, neurophysiologist and Nobel Prize recipient (1857–1952)

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Sir Ronald Ross, C.S. Sherrington, and R.W. Boyce in a laboratory at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. Gouache by W.T. Maud, 1899.

Charles Sherrington (left), Leon Fredericq (seated) and Paul Grützner (right) outside the Institute of Physiology in Liège. Copy photograph (1940?) after the 1898 original.

Lynn Thorndike, Harvey Williams Cushing and Sir Charles Scott Sherrington. Photograph, 1938.

Sir Charles Scott Sherrington. Photograph.

Harvey Williams Cushing and Sir Charles Scott Sherrington. Photograph, 1938.

Selected writings of Sir Charles Sherrington : a testimonial presented by the neurologists forming the guarantors of the journal Brain / compiled and edited by D. Denny-Brown.

Charles Scott Sherrington : an appraisal / [Ragnar Granit].

Sherrington : physiologist, philosopher and poet / [Lord Cohen of Birkenhead].

Sherrington, his life and thought / John C. Eccles, William C. Gibson.

A text book of physiology / by M. Foster ; assisted by C.S. Sherrington.

Zum Gedächtniss an Rudolf Heidenhain / von K. Hürthle.

Sections-Technik. Anleitung zur zweckmässigen Ausführung pathologischer Sectionen und zur Abfassung der Befundscheine.

Report on the pathology and etiology of Asiatic cholera / as observed in Spain in the summer of 1885, by C.S. Roy, J. Graham Brown and C.S. Sherrington, and in Italy in 1886 by C.S. Sherrington.

Sherrington head shots.

On out-lying nerve-cells in the mammalian spinal-cord / by C.S. Sherrington ; communicated by M. Foster.

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Charles Scott Sherrington

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Zum Gedächtniss an Rudolf Heidenhain / von K. Hürthle.

Sections-Technik. Anleitung zur zweckmässigen Ausführung pathologischer Sectionen und zur Abfassung der Befundscheine.

Report on the pathology and etiology of Asiatic cholera / as observed in Spain in the summer of 1885, by C.S. Roy, J. Graham Brown and C.S. Sherrington, and in Italy in 1886 by C.S. Sherrington.

Sherrington head shots.

On out-lying nerve-cells in the mammalian spinal-cord / by C.S. Sherrington ; communicated by M. Foster.

Frequent collaborators

Charles Scott Sherrington

Images from the collections

Images by Charles Scott Sherrington

Images featuring Charles Scott Sherrington

Works from the collections

Zum Gedächtniss an Rudolf Heidenhain / von K. Hürthle.

Sections-Technik. Anleitung zur zweckmässigen Ausführung pathologischer Sectionen und zur Abfassung der Befundscheine.

Report on the pathology and etiology of Asiatic cholera / as observed in Spain in the summer of 1885, by C.S. Roy, J. Graham Brown and C.S. Sherrington, and in Italy in 1886 by C.S. Sherrington.

Sherrington head shots.

On out-lying nerve-cells in the mammalian spinal-cord / by C.S. Sherrington ; communicated by M. Foster.

Frequent collaborators

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