Sir John Eccles

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Nobel Laureate Sir John Eccles and Lady Helena at lunch with Karl and Katherine:
Locarno, Switzerland, 1992

Sir John Eccles was an Australian neurophysiologist and philosopher. He won the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on the synapse with Andrew Huxley and Alan Lloyd Hodgkin.

Below is an article and images of Sir John Eccles and Karl sharing the stage at a BRAINS Conference in Virginia, discussing Karl’s theory of the importance of the dendrites in storing and retrieving memory.