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Charles Bell
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Scottish physician, painter and theologian (1774–1842)
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 92
Top works
- People of Tibet
- Tibet
- Hobbit and the Bookmaker
- Rethinking Recycling
- Animal Mechanics
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1930-09-23
- Active to
- 2004-06-10
Discography
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 213
- Total plays
- 1,266
Pianist, band leader of the Charles Bell Contemporary Jazz Quartet. Father of drummer, Charles "Poogie" Bell <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Charles+Bell">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 36,474x
- The Pittsburgh sleep quality index: A new instrument for psychiatric practice and research
· 1989 · cited 29,193x
- The ERA5 global reanalysis
· 2020 · cited 24,174x
- Human-level control through deep reinforcement learning
· 2015 · cited 23,755x
- Array programming with NumPy
· 2020 · cited 23,431x
via Crossref · CC0
Quotes
- “In concluding these papers, I hope I may be permitted to offer a few words in favour of anatomy, as better adapted for discovery than experiment. … Experiments have never been the means of discovery; and a survey of what has been attempted of late years in physiology, will prove that the opening of living animals has done more to perpetuate error, than to confirm the just views taken from the study of anatomy and natural motions.”
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1774-11-12 ) 12 November 1774, Edinburgh , Scotland
- Died
- 28 April 1842 (1842-04-28) (aged 67), Hallow, Worcestershire , England
- Alma mater
- University of Edinburgh
- Known for
- Authority on the human nervous system
- Awards
- Royal Medal (1829)
- Fields
- Anatomy
- Institutions
- Surgeon, Edinburgh Royal Infirmary (1799–), Practising surgeon, London (1804–), Principal lecturer, Great Windmill Street School of Anatomy (1812–25), Lectured at Middlesex Hospital etc (1812–36), Professor of Surgery, Edinburgh University (1836–42)
via Wikipedia infobox
Works in European collections
1 object attributed to Charles Bell, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
~16 min read
Encyclopedic overview
Sir Charles Bell KH FRS FRSE FRCSE MWS (12 November 1774 – 28 April 1842) was a Scottish surgeon, anatomist, physiologist, neurologist, artist, and philosophical theologian. Bell discovered the difference between sensory nerves and motor nerves in the spinal cord, and also described Bell's palsy.
His three older brothers included Robert Bell (1757–1816) a Writer to the Signet, John Bell (1763–1820), also a noted surgeon and writer; and the advocate George Joseph Bell (1770–1843) who became a professor of law at the University of Edinburgh and a principal clerk at the Court of Session.
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