What is John Eccles (neurophysiologist)?
[[File:Sir John Eccles Wellcome L0026812.jpg|thumb|Sir John Eccles]] [[Sir]] '''John Carew Eccles''' {{Small|[[Order of Australia|AC]]}} (27 January 1903 – 2 May 1997) was an [[Australia]]n [[physiologist|neurophysiologist]] and [[philosopher]]. He was awarded the 1963 [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] for his work on the [[synapse]]. He shared the Nobel Prize with [[Andrew Huxley]] and [[Alan Lloyd Hodgkin]]. Before this, he was became a [[Knight Bachelor]] in 1958. He was named the [[Australian of the Year]] in 1963.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.australianoftheyear.org.au/honour-roll/?view=fullView&recipientID=63|title=1963 Australian of the Year|publisher=[[Australian of the Year|Australian of the Year Awards]]|access-date=25 March 2019|archive-date=2 April 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160402073546/http://www.australianoftheyear.org.au/honour-roll/?view=fullView&recipientID=63|url-status=dead}}</ref> After the [[Second World War]], he became a [[professor]] at the [[University of Otago]] in [[Dunedin]], [[New Zealand]]. From 1952 to 1962, he worked as a professor at the John Curtin School of Medical Research (JCSMR) of the [[Australian National University]] in [[Canberra]]. Eccles was born in [[Melbourne]], [[Victoria (Australia)|Victoria]]. He was married to Irene Frances Miller from 1928 until their [[divorce]] in 1968. The couple had nine children. Eccles later married Helena Táboríková of [[Prague]]. Eccles died on 2 May 1997 in [[Tenero-Contra]], [[Locarno]], [[Switzerland]]. He was 94.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1963/eccles/biographical/|title=Sir John Eccles|publisher=[[Nobel Prize|The Nobel Prize]]|access-date=25 March 2019}}</ref> ==References== {{Reflist}} ==Other websites== {{Commons category|John Eccles}} {{Wikiquote|John Carew Eccles}} * [https://jcsmr.anu.edu.au/research/departments/eccles-institute-neuroscience Eccles Institute of Neuroscience] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190325165945/https://jcsmr.anu.edu.au/r