Sir Charles Scott Sherrington (* 27 November 1857 in London; "† 4. March 1952 in Eastbourne) was a British neuro physiologist. For its discoveries in the area of the functions of the neurons it kept 1932 common with Edgar Douglas Adrian to the Nobelpreis for medicine.

1897 it coined/shaped the term synapse. Sherrington was a teacher of John Carew Eccles.

Works

• The Integrative Action OF the Nervous system New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1906
• Mammalian physiology. Oxford and London, 1919.
• The reflex Activity OF the Spinal Cord Oxford, 1932.
• The Brain and Its Mechanism. Cambridge, 1933
• One on His Nature The GIF Ford lectures, Edinburgh: New York: MacMillan, 1937-1938.

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