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That liberty is a great thing we may know from our own feelings, and we may likewise judge so from the conduct of the white-people, in the late war.
John Carew Eccles
![John Carew Eccles](/apics/john-carew-eccles.jpg)
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)