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    Lloyd Hodgkin. Eccles was born in Melbourne, Australia. He grew up there with his two sisters and his parents: William and Mary Carew Eccles (both teachers...
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  • (composer) (1668–1735), English composer John Eccles, 2nd Viscount Eccles (born 1931), British businessman John Eccles (Royal Navy officer) (1898–1966), Commander-in-Chief...
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  • John Eccles (1668 – 12 January 1735) was an English composer. Born in London, eldest son of professional musician Solomon Eccles and brother of fellow...
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    John Dawson Eccles, 2nd Viscount Eccles, CBE (born 20 April 1931), is a British Conservative peer and businessman. He is one of the ninety-two hereditary...
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    butter, sometimes topped with demerara sugar. The Eccles cake is named after the English town of Eccles, which is in the historic county of Lancashire and...
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    the Manchester Ship Canal to the south. The town is famous for the Eccles cake. Eccles grew around the 13th-century Parish Church of St Mary. Evidence of...
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  • Henry (Henri) Eccles (1670–1742) was an English composer. He was the son of composer Solomon Eccles and the brother of composer John Eccles. As a violinist...
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    Sir John Eccles (c.1664 – 1727) was an Anglo-Irish merchant and landowner. Eccles was the son of John Eccles of Malone, Belfast and Elizabeth Best of Hornby...
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  • (1698) libretto by John Dennis; music by John Eccles The Island Princess (1699) libretto by Peter Motteux, adapted from plays by John Fletcher and Nahum...
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    After his term as chairman, Eccles continued to serve as a member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors until 1951. Eccles was known during his lifetime...
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    Alan Hodgkin (category John Humphrey Plummer Professors)
    the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Andrew Huxley and John Eccles. Hodgkin was born in Banbury, Oxfordshire, on 5 February 1914. He was...
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    that increases fitness. In his article "Evolution of consciousness", John Eccles argued that special anatomical and physical properties of the mammalian...
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  • "My Odyssey with Sir John Eccles". NeuroQuantology. 6 (2): 161–163. doi:10.14704/nq.2008.6.2.170. Beck, Friedrich; Eccles, John C. (1992). "Quantum aspects...
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  • Diana Catherine Eccles, Viscountess Eccles (Baroness Eccles of Moulton in her own right) DL (born 4 October 1933) is a British Conservative peer and businesswoman...
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  • IPSPs were first investigated in motorneurons by David P. C. Lloyd, John Eccles and Rodolfo Llinás in the 1950s and 1960s. This system IPSPs can be temporally...
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    Semele is an opera by John Eccles, written in about 1706 with a libretto by William Congreve drawing on the Semele myth from Ovid's Metamorphoses. It...
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    of Modern Neuroscience". Kuffler, alongside noted Nobel Laureates Sir John Eccles and Sir Bernard Katz gave research lectures at the University of Sydney...
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    longfin inshore squid as the model organism. The prize was shared with John Eccles. The large diameter of the axon provided a great experimental advantage...
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    General Sir John Eccles Nixon GCMG KCB (16 August 1857 – 15 December 1921) was a senior commander of the British Indian Army. He gave the orders for the...
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  • Allenby, English lieutenant and politician (d. 2014) 1931 – John Eccles, 2nd Viscount Eccles, English businessman and politician 1932 – Myriam Bru, French...
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    Eccles Street /ˈɛkəlz/ (Irish: Sráid Eccles) is a street in Dublin, Ireland. Eccles Street began on 6 March 1769 when Isaac-Ambrose Eccles leased three...
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    Semele formed the basis for three operas of the same name, the first by John Eccles (1707, to a libretto by William Congreve), another by Marin Marais (1709)...
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  • Theodore Edward Eccles (born June 9, 1955) is an American former child actor and executive producer. Eccles performed many of his best known roles as...
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  • David McAdam Eccles, 1st Viscount Eccles CH KCVO PC (18 September 1904 – 24 February 1999), was an English Conservative politician. Eccles was educated...
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    valuable rule of thumb. The term "Dale's principle" was first used by Sir John Eccles in 1954, in a passage reading, "In conformity with Dale's principle (1934...
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    Society and Its Enemies. In Dunedin he met the Professor of Physiology John Carew Eccles and formed a lifelong friendship with him. In 1946, after the Second...
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  • Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, pp. 141–165, doi:10.1075/aicr.49.14bec Georgiev, Danko D. (2011). "A linkage of mind and brain: Sir John Eccles and...
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  • rule] whereby you can at the same time will that it become a universal law." John Stuart Mill was a consequential thinker and therefore proposed utilitarianism...
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  • McClelland & Stewart Ltd., 1964), p. v. "William John Eccles", Penguin Random House Canada. "ECCLES, William John (Professor of History Emeritus, University...
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    Admiral Sir John Arthur Symons Eccles, GCB, KCVO, CBE (20 June 1898 – 1 March 1966) was a Royal Navy officer who served as Commander-in-Chief, Home Fleet...
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