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John Eccles
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Australian neurophysiologist (1903–1997)
John Eccles was an Australian neurophysiologist who lived from 1903 to 1997 and made important discoveries about how nerve cells communicate with each other. His work helped explain the fundamental mechanisms of the nervous system, which is essential to understanding how the brain and body function.
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- Died
- 1735
- Works
- 42
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- The loves of Mars and Venus
- John Eccles - Court Odes
- John Eccles - Incidental Music, Part 3
- Wonder of Being Human Our Brain and Our MI
- John Eccles - Incidental Music, Part 2
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John Eccles (1668 – 12 January 1735) was an English composer. Born in London, eldest son of professional musician Solomon Eccles, John Eccles was appointed to the King's Private Musick in 1694, and in 1700 became Master of the King's Musick. Also in 1700 he finished second in a competition to write music for William Congreve's masque The Judgement of Paris (John Weldon won). Eccles was very active as a composer for the theatre, and from the 1690s wrote a large amount of incidental music inclu
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5 total works indexed
- Generalized Gradient Approximation Made Simple
· 1996 · cited 200,169x
- Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 41,509x
- Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology
· 2000 · cited 36,330x
- Matplotlib: A 2D Graphics Environment
· 2007 · cited 34,187x
- The MOS 36-ltem Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36)
· 1992 · cited 28,820x
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- ジョン・カルー・エクルズ
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- date of birth
- 1903-01-27
- date of death
- 1997-05-02
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- John Carew Eccles
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Sir John Carew Eccles (27 January 1903 – 2 May 1997) was an Australian neurophysiologist and philosopher who won the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on the synapse. He shared the prize with Andrew Huxley and Alan Lloyd Hodgkin.
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