Adrian, Edgar Douglas, 1st Baron Adrian

A Dictionary of British History | Date: 2004

Adrian, Edgar Douglas, 1st Baron Adrian (1889–1977). Scientist. Born in London, Adrian went to Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge. Specializing in physiology, he became a fellow of his college in 1913 and then spent the First World War treating cases of shell‐shock. Adrian returned to Cambridge in 1919 and published extensively on the nervous system. He shared the Nobel prize in 1932, held the chair of physiology from 1937 to 1951, and was master of Trinity from 1951 to 1965.


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