Sherrington, Sir Charles Scott (1861-1952), a British scientist, shared the 1932 Nobel Prize for physiology and medicine with Edgar D. Adrian. His researches contributed greatly to understanding how the nerves coordinate and control body functions. He wrote The Integrative Action of the Nervous System (1906). This book explained the plan of the brain and spinal cord, based on numerous reflex pathways by which the activities of the body are adjusted to the environment. Sherrington was born in London.
