Eccles

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noun

Sir John Ca·rew

[kuh-roo] , 1903–97, Australian physiologist: Nobel prize for medicine 1963.

Mar·ri·ner Stod·dard

[mar-uh-ner stod-erd] , 1890–1977, U.S. economist and banker.

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Eccles¹ (ˈɛk^əlz)

—n
	a town in NW England, in Salford unitary authority, Greater Manchester. Pop: 36 610 (2001)

Eccles² (ˈɛk^əlz)

—n
	Sir John Carew. 1903--97, Australian physiologist: shared the Nobel prize for physiology (1963) with A. L. Hodgkin and A. F. Huxley for their work on conduction of nervous impulses

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Eccles Ec·cles (ěk'əlz), Sir John Carew. Born 1903.

Australian physiologist. He shared a 1963 Nobel Prize for research on the action of nerve impulses.