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Adrian, Edgar Douglas (Baron of Cambridge)
Born: 1889 AD
Died: 1977 AD, at 87 years of age.
Nationality: British
Categories: Electrophysiologist
Died: 1977 AD, at 87 years of age.
Nationality: British
Categories: Electrophysiologist
1889 - Edgar Douglas Adrian was born in LOndon on November 30, 1889.
1915 - Completed his medical degree and did clinical work at St. Bartholomew's Hospital London.
1919 - Returned to Cambridge.
1923 - Adrian married Hester Agnes Pinsent on June 14, 1923.
1925 - Studied the nerve impulses in the human sensory organs.
1928 - Discovered the presence of electricity within nerve cells.
1977 - Died on August 8, 1977.
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