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.