Adrian edgar douglas (9 Ergebnisse)

Brossura. Zustand: Molto buono (Very Good). Traduzione di Giuseppe Moruzzi, Professore di Fisiologia nell'Università di Pisa. In antiporta foto dell'A. e nota esplicativa su carta patinata . 8vo. pp. 122. . Molto buono (Very Good). . Seconda edizione (2nd Edition). . Serie di conferenze tenute nel 1946 presso il Saint Mary College dell'Università di Oxford. Book.…

Brossura. Zustand: Discreto. Traduzione di Giuseppe Moruzzi. Cm.21,5x15,5. Pg.126. Illustrazioni nel testo e tavole fuori testo. Collezione "Biblioteca di cultura scientifica", n°32. 200 gr.

Torino, Einaudi, 1952, 8vo brossura, pp. 124 con 21 illustrazioni nel testo.

Adrian, Edgar Douglas (1889-1977). The physical background of perception. [8], 95pp. Text illustrations. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1947. 220 x 140 mm. Original cloth, dust-jacket (sunned, chipped, portion torn from back wrapper). Minor toning but very good. First Edition. Adrian (first Baron Adrian) shared the 1932 Nobel Prize in physiology / medicine with Charles Sherrington for his investigations of the physical basis of sensation. The present book was based on Adrian's Waynflete Lectures of 1946. . …

GhA, 487. - Beil. Münch. med. Wschr. - München, J.F. Lehmann Verlag, 1933, 16 x 24,5 cm. Sir Charles Scott Sherringtion and Edgar Douglas Adrian received the Nobel prize 1932 "for their discoveries regarding the functions of neurons".

Quer-8vo. 1 p. Mit eigenh. Kuvert. Für seine Entdeckungen auf dem Gebiet der Funktionen der Neuronen erhielt er 1932 gemeinsam mit Charles Scott Sherrington den Nobelpreis für Physiologie oder Medizin.

Lord Adrian was Professor of Physiology in the University of Cambridge 1937-1951; President of the Royal Society 1950-1955; Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, 1951-1965; president of the Royal Society of Medicine 1960-1962; Chancellor of the University of Cambridge 1967-1975. In 1932 Adrian and Sir Charles Sherrington receiving the 1932 Nobel Prize for Physiology 'for their discoveries regarding the functions of neurons'.The recipient Otto Maas obtained his medical degree from the University of Strasbourg in 1898. Between 1910 and 1932 he was Director of the clinic in Berlin-Buch. Together with his wife, Hilde, he also ran a private practice in Berlin-Westen. He was an assistant to Hermann Oppenheim, and collaborated with Hugo Liepmann, and Oskar and Cécile Vogt. From around 1934 he was based in London, where until at least 1938 he was associated with the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery. Arrested by the Nazis during the Second World War, Maas was sent in 1942 to Treblinka concentration camp, where he is presumed to have been murdered. The only printing on the three cards is the letterhead. The last of the three is accompanied by the envelope, with stamp and postmark, in which it was sent. The collection is in good condition, lightly aged. All three addressed to 'Dear Dr Maas'. ONE: 6 February 1934. Adrian writes on both sides of the card. Having been away from Cambridge on the previous Monday he has only just found Maas's letter. 'I'm afraid it will be too late to arrange a meeting in London tomorrow (7th) but I shall be down next week on the 16th & perhaps we might meet in the morning if you are free then. The Medical Research Council meets in the afternoon of that day.' TWO: 12 February 1934. Adrian writes on both sides. 'Can you come & talk to me about your proposed work on Friday at the Royal Society of Medicine, 1 Wimpole Street at about 11 o'clock? I must be off by 12 but an hour should be long enough for me to get all the information the Council will want. Don't trouble to reply if you can come then. The porter will know where to find me.' THREE: 27 January 1938. On one side. Accompanied by the envelope, with stamp and postmark, addressed by Adrian to 'Dr. Otto Maas | National Hospital | Queen Square | W.C. | London', and with 'Prof Adrian' in red pencil, no doubt by Maas. Reads 'Dear Dr. Maas | Thank you very much for a most interesting reprint! | Yrs sincerely | R. D. Adrian'. From the distinguished autograph collection of the psychiatrist Richard Alfred Hunter (1923-1981), whose collection of 7000 works relating to psychiatry is now in Cambridge University Library. Hunter and his mother Ida Macalpine had a particular interest in the illness of King George III, and their book 'George III and the Mad Business' (1969) suggested the diagnosis of porphyria popularised by Alan Bennett in his play 'The Madness of George III'.…

Signed album page, 3,25 x 1,5 inch - affixed on cardboard, signed in blue ink "Yours sincerely - Edgar D Adrian", attractively mounted (removable) for fine display with a photograph, shows Edgar Douglas Adrian in a head and shoulders portrait (altogether 8,25 x 11,75 inch), with trimmed edges and mild foxing - in fine condition.…

Cambridge, 16. IV. 1973, Qu.-Kl.-8°. 1 Seite. Mit besten Wünschen. - Zusammen mit dem eigenh. Umschlag auf ein Folioblatt montiert.