| RefNo | EC/1963/19 |
| Previous numbers | Cert XVII, 78 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Phillips, Charles Garrett: certificate of election to the Royal Society |
| Description | Certificate of Election |
| Citation | 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. More recently he has 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. He has also 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. His work is characterised by excellence of technique and by soundly based theoretical treatment. |
| Proposers | From Personal Knowlege: John C Eccles; E G T Liddeell; D Whitteridge; R D Keynes; Adrian; J Z Young; W D M Paton; A F Huxley; E B Verney; I de Burgh Daly; G W Harris |
| AccessStatus | Open |
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Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA2110 | Phillips; Charles Garrett (1916 - 1994) | 1916 - 1994 |