Quote of the day
Physiology and psychology cover, between them, the field of vital phenomena; they deal with the facts of life at large, and in particular with the facts of human life.
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)