Sir John Eccles
The Nobel Prize in Medicine 1963.
Born: 27, Jan, 1903, Melbourne, Australia
Died: 2, May, 1997, Contra, Switzerland
Prize motivation: "for their discoveries concerning the ionic mechanisms involved in excitation and inhibition in the peripheral and central portions of the nerve cell membrane"
Affiliation at the time of the award: Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
Prize share: 1/3