page_title: Charles Scott Sherrington
section_title: Honours and awards
hierarchical_section_title: Charles Scott Sherrington / Honours and awards
caption_attribution_description: Stained glass window in the dining hall of Gonville and Caius College, in Cambridge (UK), commemorating Charles Scott Sherrington, a British scientist known for his contributions to physiology and neuroscience and a fellow of the college. The text on the windows reads: C.S. SHERRINGTON; FELLO 1887&#8211;1893; HONORARY FELLOW 1905.
context_page_description: Sir Charles Scott Sherrington OM PRS FRCP FRCS was an English neurophysiologist, histologist, bacteriologist, and a pathologist, Nobel laureate and president of the Royal Society in the early 1920s. He received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Edgar Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian, in 1932 for their work on the functions of neurons. Prior to the work of Sherrington and Adrian, it was widely accepted that reflexes occurred as isolated activity within a reflex arc. Sherrington received the prize for showing that reflexes require integrated activation and demonstrated reciprocal innervation of muscles. Through his seminal 1906 publication, The Integrative Action of the Nervous System, he had effectively laid to rest the theory that the nervous system, including the brain, can be understood as a single interlinking network. His alternative explanation of synaptic communication between neurons helped shape our understanding of the central nervous system.
context_section_description: Sherrington was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1893.
  1899 Baly Gold Medal of the Royal College of Physicians of London 
  1905 Royal Medal of the Royal Society of London
  1922 Knight Grand Cross of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire
  1922 President of the British Association for the year 1922–1923
  1924 Order of Merit
  1932 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine
  At the time of his death Sherrington received honoris causa Doctors from twenty-two universities: Oxford, Paris, Manchester, Strasbourg, Louvain, Uppsala, Lyon, Budapest, Athens, London, Toronto, Harvard, Dublin, Edinburgh, Montreal, Liverpool, Brussels, Sheffield, Bern, Birmingham, Glasgow, and the University of Wales.
caption: Stained glass window in the dining hall of Gonville and Caius College, in Cambridge (UK), commemorating Charles Scott Sherrington
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