Quote of the day
At last, in 1611, was made, under the auspices of King James, the famous King James version; and this is the great literary monument of the English language.
John Carew Eccles
Born: January 27, 1903
Died: May 2, 1997 (aged 94)
Bio: Sir John Carew Eccles was an Australian neurophysiologist and philosopher who won the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on the synapse. He shared the prize with Andrew Huxley and Alan Lloyd Hodgkin.
Known for:
- How the Self Controls Its Brain (1994)
- Evolution of the Brain (1989)
- The Physiology of Synapses (1964)
- The human mystery (1979)