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eccles, sir john carew

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Ec·cles   (ěk'əlz)   
Australian physiologist. He shared a 1963 Nobel Prize for research on nerve cells.
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Eccles, Sir John Carew

Australian research physiologist who received (with Alan Hodgkin and Andrew Huxley) the 1963 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the chemical means by which impulses are communicated or repressed by nerve cells (neurons)

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