| Authorised form of name | Eccles; Sir; John Carew (1903 - 1997) |
| Dates | 1903 - 1997 |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Place of birth | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
| Date of birth | 27/01/1903 |
| Date of death | 02/05/1997 |
| Research field | Physiology |
| Activity | Education:
MA, DPhil (Oxon)
Career:
Won Rhodes Scholarship for Victoria (1925); Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford (1927-1934); Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford (1934-1937); Demonstrator in Physiology, Oxford University; Director, Kanematsu Memorial Institute of Pathology, Sydney, Australia; Professor of Physiology, Otago, New Zealand (1943); Professor, John Curtin School of Medical Research, Canberra, Australia (1951); named 'Australian of the Year' (1963); Institute of Biomedical Science, Chicago (1966); Distinguished Professor, State University of New York, Buffalo (1968)
Medals and prizes:
Nobel Prize (Physiology or Medicine) 1963
Honours:
Kt 1958
Memberships:
FRSNZ (1950); Australian Academy of Sciences (President 1957) |
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 20/03/1941 |
| Age at election | 38 |
| Royal Society activity | Medals and prizes:
Royal Medal 1962
Lectures:
Ferrier 1959 |
| Relationships | Married: 1) Irene Miller (dissolved 1968); 2) Helena Taborikova |
| Sources | Sources:
AE
Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 2001 vol 47 pp 159-188, plate, by David R Curtis FRS and Per Andersen
References:
Robin J H Clark and Michael J Kelly, 'New Zealand, New Zealanders and the Royal Society' in NR 1994 vol 48 pp 263-281
Sir John Eccles, 'From Electrical to Chemical Transmission in the Central Nervous System' in NR 1975-6 vol 30 pp 219-230 |
| Royal Society code | NA8362 |
| Reference number | Title | Date |
| GLB/46/2/8 | John C Eccles, Department of Physiology, Australian National University to Brown | 7 May 1962 |
| MS/749 | Some experimental papers of Sir John Carew Eccles | 1960s |
| GLB/65/28 | Sir John Eccles | December 1952 - February 1969 |
| EC/1941/07 | Eccles, Sir John Carew: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| GLB/46/2/6 | John C Eccles, Department of Physiology, Australian National University to Brown | 19 April 1962 |
| GLB/46/2/9 | John C Eccles, Department of Physiology, Australian National University to Brown | 11 June 1962 |
| GLB/19/1/94 | John C Eccles, Professor of Physiology. Australian National University, Canberra | 17 February 1960 |
| GLB/46/2/2 | John C Eccles, Department of Physiology, Australian National University to Brown | 20 March 1962 |
| OL/20/4 | Letter from John C Eccles, Professor of Physiology, Australian National University of Canberra, to Otto Loewi | 19 April 1961 |
| IM/001236 | Eccles, Sir John Carew | 1941 |
| HD/25/23 | Photograph of guests at dinner in honour of 90th birthday of Henry Dale | 11 June 1965 |
| RR/49/107 | Referee's report by Edgar Douglas Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian of Cambridge, on a paper 'The rhythm of the heart beat. I—Location, action potential, and electrical excitability of the pacemaker' by John Carew Eccles and H E Hoff | [December 1933] |
| RR/49/109 | Referee's report by Thomas Lewis, on a paper 'The rhythm of the heart beat. II—Disturbance of rhythm produced by late premature beats' by John Carew Eccles and H E Hoff | [September 1933] |
| RR/53/50 | Referee's report by Geoffrey Ingram Taylor, on a paper 'An investigation of the visco-elastic properties of rubber' by John Carew Eccles and J H C Thompson | [August 1934] |
| RR/74/68 | Referee's report by George Lindor Brown, on a paper 'Experimental investigations on the afferent fibres in muscle nerves' by L G Brock, John Carew Eccles and W Rall | 7 February 1951 |
| IM/001235 | Eccles, Sir John Carew | 1957 |
| RR/47/26 | Referee's report by Edgar Douglas Adrian, on a paper 'The rhythmic discharge of motoneurones' by John Carew Eccles and H E Hoff | February 1932 |
| RR/49/113 | Second referee's report by Edgar Douglas Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian of Cambridge, on a paper 'The rhythm of the heart beat. III—Disturbances of rhythm produced by early premature beats' by John Carew Eccles and H E Hoff | [April 1934] |
| RR/49/106 | Referee's report by Thomas Lewis, on a paper 'The rhythm of the heart beat. I—Location, action potential, and electrical excitability of the pacemaker' by John Carew Eccles and H E Hoff | [September 1933] |
| RR/49/108 | Second referee's report by Edgar Douglas Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian of Cambridge, on a paper 'The rhythm of the heart beat. I—Location, action potential, and electrical excitability of the pacemaker' by John Carew Eccles and H E Hoff | [April 1934] |
| RR/49/110 | Referee's report by Edgar Douglas Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian of Cambridge, on a paper 'The rhythm of the heart beat. II—Disturbance of rhythm produced by late premature beats' by John Carew Eccles and H E Hoff | [December 1933] |
| RR/49/111 | Second referee's report by Edgar Douglas Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian of Cambridge, on a paper 'The rhythm of the heart beat. II—Disturbance of rhythm produced by late premature beats' by John Carew Eccles and H E Hoff | [April 1934] |
| RR/49/112 | Referee's report by Edgar Douglas Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian of Cambridge, on a paper 'The rhythm of the heart beat. III—Disturbances of rhythm produced by early premature beats' by John Carew Eccles and H E Hoff | [December 1933] |
| RR/74/69 | Referee's report by Bryan Harold Cabot Matthews, on a paper 'Experimental investigations on the afferent fibres in muscle nerves' by L G Brock, John Carew Eccles and W Rall | 18 February 1951 |
| RR/74/71 | Referee's report by Bryan Harold Cabot Matthews, on a paper 'Repetitive monosynaptic activation of motoneurones' by John Carew Eccles and W Rall | 19 February 1951 |
| RR/74/70 | Referee's report by George Lindor Brown, on a paper 'Repetitive monosynaptic activation of motoneurones' by John Carew Eccles and W Rall | 12 February 1951 |