Thorndike
by National Library Of Medicine
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Thorndike
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National Library Of Medicine
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Photograph - Photograph
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Thorndike, Cushing and Sherrington. Group portrait of US historian Lynn Thorndike (left, 1882-1965), US neurosurgeon Harvey Williams Cushing (centre, 1869-1939) and British physiologist Charles Scott Sherrington (right, 1857-1952). They are conversing in 1938 in the library at the Royal College of Surgeons of England, London, UK. Thorndike wrote on medieval history and science, including the history of medicine. Cushing was a pioneering brain surgeon. Sherrington was awarded the 1932 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on the nervous system. Photographed by Swiss-US microbiologist Arnold Carl Klebs (1870-1943).
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July 11th, 2016
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