| Authorised form of name | Phillips; Charles Garrett (1916 - 1994); neurophysiologist |
| Dates | 1916 - 1994 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | London, England, United Kingdom |
| Date of birth | 13 October 1916 |
| Place of death | Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom |
| Date of death | 09 September 1994 |
| Occupation | Neurophysiologist |
| Research field | Neuroanatomy |
| Anatomy |
| Physiology |
| Neurophysiology |
| Activity | Education:
Bigshotte School, Wokingham 1926–30; Bradfield College, Berkshire 1930–35; Magdalen College, Oxford 1935–9; BM BCh (Oxon.) 1942
Career:
Called up into the army and worked in Military Hospital for Head Injuries, which was set up in St Hugh's College, Oxford (1943-1945); returned to academia after the end of the war and became fellow and medical tutor of Trinity College (1946-66); promoted to a personal professorship in neurophysiology (1966-75); secretary of the Physiological Society (1960-66); editor-in-chief of Brain (1975-81); Dr Lee's professor of anatomy (1975-83).
Memberships:
Medical Research Council 1980-84 |
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 21/03/1963 |
| Age at election | 46 |
| Proposer | Geoffrey Wingfield Harris |
| Ivan de Burgh Daly |
| Ernest Basil Verney |
| Andrew Fielding Huxley |
| William Drummond Macdonald Paton |
| John Zachary Young |
| Adrian |
| Richard Darwin Keynes |
| David Whitteridge |
| Edward George Tandy Liddell |
| John Carew Eccles |
| RSActivity | Lectures:
Ferrier 1968 |
| Relationships | Parents: George Ramsay Phillips (1880–1953), anaesthetist, and Flora, née Green (1886–1956), nurse.
Spouse: (m. 5 June 1942) Cynthia Mary Broster (b. 1919), daughter of Lennox Ross Broster, surgeon at Charing Cross Hospital, London.
Children: Catherine (b. 1945) and Helen (b. 1946). |
| PublishedWorks | RCN 20110
RCN 11231 |
| OtherInfo | Distinguished for research on the physiology of the nervous system, particularly in relation to the control of muscular contraction. His first investigations in this field were on the pyramidal tract and on the motor cortex.
Studied the cells of origin of the tract with superb intracellular technique, so providing the definitive descriptions of the electrical responses of cortical pyramidal cells.
His investigations on the electrical responses of individual nerve cells in the cerebellum are an important contribution to cerebellar physiology.
Investigated the control of movement at lower levels, with precise studies both of the many factors causing motor nerve cell discharge and of the muscle contractions so produced. |
| Royal Society Obituary or Memoir | Click to view (may be contained within a meeting notice, presidential address or list of death notices) |
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| Source | Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1996 vol 42 pp 339-362, plate, by Robert Porter |
| Code | NA2110 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| GLB/19/1/34 | Charles Phillips, Chadlington Road, Oxford to Brown | 3 February 1960 |
| GLB/65/100/7 | C G Phillips to Secretary, Medical School, Osler House, Oxford to | 16 February 1966 |
| GLB/65/91/86 | Brown to Charles Phillips, University Laboratory of Physiology, Oxford | 7 December 1970 |
| GLB/65/91/85 | Charles Phillips, University Laboratory of Physiology, Oxford to Brown | 2 December 1970 |
| HWT/25/10/2 | Correspondence and papers regarding visit of Royal Society delegation to China | November - December 1973 |
| EC/1963/19 | Phillips, Charles Garrett: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| HD/25/23 | Photograph of guests at dinner in honour of 90th birthday of Henry Dale | 11 June 1965 |
| IM/GA/WRS/9592 | Phillips, Charles Garrett | nd |