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|spouse=Hester Adrian (m. 1923) | children = | parents = }} Edgar Douglas Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian (30 November 1889 – 4 August 1977)〔GRO Register of Births: DEC 1889 1a 650 HAMPSTEAD – Edgar Douglas Adrian〕〔GRO Register of Deaths: SEP 1977 9 0656 CAMBRIDGE – Edgar Douglas Adrian, DoB = 30 Nov 1889〕 was an English electrophysiologist and recipient of the 1932 Nobel Prize for Physiology, won jointly with Sir Charles Sherrington for work on the function of neurons. He provided experimental evidence for the all-or-none law of nerves. ==Biography== Adrian was born at Hampstead, London, to Alfred Douglas Adrian, legal adviser to the Local Government Board, and Flora Lavinia Barton.〔(thePeerage.com – Person Page 4412 )〕 He attended Westminster School and studied Natural Sciences at Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating in 1911 and in 1913, he was elected to a Fellowship of Trinity College on account of his research into the "all or none" law of nerves. After completing a medical degree in 1915, he did clinical work at St Bartholomew's Hospital London during World War I, treating soldiers with nerve damage and nervous disorders such as shell shock. Adrian returned to Cambridge as a lecturer and in 1925 began research on the human sensory organs by electrical methods. Adrian married Hester Agnes Pinsent on 14 June 1923 and they had three offspring - a daughter and mixed twins: * Anne Pinsent Adrian, who married the physiologist Richard Keynes * Richard Hume Adrian, 2nd Baron Adrian (1927–1995) * Jennet Adrian (b. 1927), who married Peter Watson Campbell.〔Peter Townend, ed., Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 105th edition (London, U.K.: Burke's Peerage Ltd, 1970), page 27.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Edgar Adrian」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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