찰스 스콧 셰링턴

소개

찰스 스콧 셰링턴 경(영어: Sir Charles Scott Sherrington, OM GBE PRS FRCP FRCS, 1857년 11월 27일 ~ 1952년 3월 4일)은 영국의 신경생리학자, 조직학자, 세균학자, 병리학자이다.

Sir Charles Scott Sherrington was a British neurophysiologist. His experimental research established many aspects of contemporary neuroscience, including the concept of the spinal reflex as a system involving connected neurons, and the ways in which signal transmission between neurons can be potentiated or depotentiated. Sherrington himself coined the word "synapse" to define the connection between two neurons. His book The Integrative Action of the Nervous System (1906) is a synthesis of this work, in recognition of which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1932.