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Biography of Edgar Douglas AdrianName: Edgar Douglas AdrianBirth Date: November 30, 1889 Death Date: August 4, 1977 Place of Birth: London, England Nationality: English Gender: Male Occupations: neurophysiologist Edgar Douglas Adrian The English neurophysiologist Edgar Douglas Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian of Cambridge (1889-1977), shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with Sir Charles Sherrington for their discoveries regarding the functions of neurons.Edgar Douglas Adrian, born in London on Nov. 30, 1889, was the second son of A. D. Adrian, legal adviser to the Local Government Board. He entered Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1908 and graduated with honors in the natural sciences in 1911. He then embarked on research in physiology, and in 1913 he was elected a fellow of Trinity. Thereafter he took his clinical courses at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London, and he graduated in medicine at Cambridge in 1915. During the remainder of World War I he studied service men suffering from nerve injuries and nervous diseases, and after the war he lectured on the nervous system at Cambridge. There he was Foulerton research professor of the Royal Society from 1929 until 1937, when he became professor …showed first 150 words…
…showed last 150 words…and bicycle riding. Adrian also took a keen interest in the arts, and particularly enjoyed painting, even meriting an exhibition of 80 of his works at Cambridge. Further Reading A short biography of Lord Adrian will be found in Nobel Lectures, Physiology or Medicine, 1922-1941 (1965). This work also contains his Nobel Lecture, which summarizes his earlier work, mainly on single nerve fibers and the end organs. There is a brief discussion of Adrian's work in general in C. Singer and E. A. Underwood, A Short History of Medicine (1962); and a few extracts from his writings are given in E. Clarke and C. D. O'Malley, The Human Brain and Spinal Cord (1968). Reference may also be made to J. F. Fulton, Physiology of the Nervous System (1949). Later biographical material appears in Notable Twentieth-Century Scientists, Volume I (Detroit: Gale, 1995) and Nobel Laureates in Medicine or Physiology(1990), edited by Daniel Fox, Marcia Meldrum, and Ira Rezak. |