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The Ferrier Lecture is a Royal Society lectureship given every three years "on a subject related to the advancement of natural knowledge on the structure and function of the nervous system". [1] It was created in 1928 to honour the memory of Sir David Ferrier , a neurologist who was the first British scientist to electronically stimulate the ...
Sir Charles Scott Sherrington (27 November 1857 – 4 March 1952) was a British neurophysiologist.His experimental research established many aspects of contemporary neuroscience, including the concept of the spinal reflex as a system involving connected neurons (the "neuron doctrine"), and the ways in which signal transmission between neurons can be potentiated or depotentiated.
In 2001, he was awarded The Ferrier Lecture and medal by the Royal Society [1] [13] and in 2007, the W. Maxwell Cowan Prize [14] for "outstanding contributions in developmental neuroscience". Lumsden has also been elected Freeman of the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers in 2006, and raised to the Livery in 2016.
In 2017, Professor Holt was awarded the Ferrier Medal and Lecture by the Royal Society "for pioneering understanding of the key molecular mechanisms involved in nerve growth, guidance and targeting which has revolutionised our knowledge of growing axon tip." [11] In 2022 she received the Rosenstiel Award, [12] and in 2023 The Brain Prize. [13]
In 2015 he presented the Paul B. Baltes Lecture at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. He was one of three recipients of the 2017 Brain Prize, along with Peter Dayan and Wolfram Schultz. [5] He is a fellow of the Royal Society, the Academy of Medical Sciences, and the Association for Psychological Science. [6]
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