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Again last week the Stockholm Academy of Medicine awarded a Nobel Prize: jointly to Professor Sir Charles Scott Sherrington of Oxford and Professor Edgar Douglas Adrian of Cambridge, for their separate but complementary studies of nerves. Both are experimental physiologists. Professor Sherrington never practiced medicine. Professor Adrian practiced only during the War when lack of physicians forced him into a London hospital...
Professor Adrian, 43, is a brisker, more active individual. He climbs mountains (Mt. Blanc last year), rides a bicycle the mile between his Cambridge home and laboratory. When he is working or otherwise preoccupied he is inclined to be irritable and abrupt, especially with slow students. But with his associates, particularly those who are interested in his field, he bubbles with enthusiasm and information. He too has a portfolio of international honors given for his studies of nerve conduction. His most delicate work has been to separate the microscopic, floss-like fibres which constitute a nerve and splice them into...
...Sherrington-Adrian award gave Great Britain a score of six Nobel Prizes in Medicine, against the two for the U. S. Previous Britons: the late Sir Ronald Ross (1902), Archibald Vivian Hill (1922), John James Rickard Macleod (1923, while at Toronto), Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins (1929). The U. S. Nobelmen: French-born Alexis Carrel (1912), Austrian-born Karl Landsteiner...
...Adrian Hoffman Larkin...
Married. Violet Raymond, niece of Henry Ford; and one Francois Audi, of Paris; in Adrian, Mich. Mrs. Appalah Audi, mother of the bridegroom, unable to attend, had a special, simultaneous marriage service performed in Lebanon, Syria...