Eccles, John Carew (1903 - 1997)

Chronology

1925	Bachelor of Medicine (MB) and Bachelor of Surgery (BS) completed at the University of Melbourne
c. 1926 - c. 1929	Master of Arts (MA) and a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) completed at the University of Oxford, UK
1927 - 1929	Junior Research Fellow at Exeter College, University of Oxford
1927 - 1929	Christopher Welch Scholarship to study at the University of Oxford
1932 - 1934	Staines Medical Fellow at Exeter College
1934 - 1937	Tutorial Fellow at Magdalen College and University Demonstrator in Physiology at the University of Oxford
1937 - 1943	Director of the Kanematsu Memorial Institute of Pathology at the Sydney Hospital
1938 -	Foundation Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (FRACP)
1941 -	Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS)
1944 - 1951	Professor of Physiology at the University of Otago, New Zealand
1951	Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand (FRSNZ)
1951	Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand
1952 - 1966	Professor of Physiology at the Australian National University in Canberra
1954	Foundation Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science (FAA)
1957 - 1961	President of the Australian Academy of Science (FAA)
1958	Knight Bachelor (Kt cr)
1961 -	Member of the Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina
1962	Royal Medal received from the Royal Society
1963	Cothenius Medal received from the Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina
1963	Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine received
1963	Flinders Lecture presented to the Australian Academy of Science
1966	Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences
1966 - 1968	Member of the Institute for Biomedical Research in Chicago, USA
1968 - 1975	Distinguished Professor of Physiology and Biophysics at the State University of New York in Buffalo, USA

• 'Biography - Sir John Carew Eccles', in Nobel e-Museum, 1996, http://www.nobel.se/medicine/laureates/1963/eccles-bio.html. [ Details ]
• 'The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1963 'for their discoveries concerning the ionic mechanisms involved in excitation and inhibition in the peripheral and central portions of the nerve cell membrane'', in Nobel e-Museum, 1996, http://www.nobel.se/medicine/laureates/1963/index.html. [ Details ]