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John Carew Eccles

Australian neurophysiologist1903 to 1997

Wikidata names Charles Scott Sherrington as doctoral advisor and lists 1 doctoral student. Linked to Wikidata, Wikipedia, and 5 other registers.

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Advisors on Wikidata1

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Charles Scott Sherrington

Students on Wikidata1

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stated by Wikidata
Stephen Kuffler
born 1913

Taught1

Wikidata's "student of" and "student" statements: a line of training beside the lineage, never a thesis supervision and never counted with one.

a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
John Money
born 1921

The line above and below4 steps

The advisors of their advisors, four steps up at most, in the thesis records and on Wikidata, each kind marked; a person in both is listed once.

1 step up
stated by WikidataCharles Scott Sherrington
2 steps up
stated by WikidataJohn Newport Langleystated by WikidataMichael Foster
3 steps up
stated by WikidataThomas Henry Huxleystated by WikidataWilliam Sharpey
4 steps up
stated by WikidataThomas Wharton Jones

Below them, within 3 steps, the record reaches 1 person: 1 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career7

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undated
Magdalen College
studied
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Melbourne High School
studied
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University of Melbourne
studied
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Warrnambool College
studied
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University of Otago
worked
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University at Buffalo
worked
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Australian National University
worked

At a glance

known as: philosopher, neuroscientist, physician, professor, neurologist, physiologist, researcher
fields: neurophysiology
awards: Fellow of the Royal Society, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1963, Royal Medal, 1962, Australian of the Year, 1963, Knight Bachelor, 1958, Annual Review Prize Lecture, 1972, James Cook Medal, 1961, honorary doctor of the University of Madrid Complutense, 1992, Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, 1953, Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi, 1950, Rhodes Scholarship, 1925, Baly Medal, 1961, Companion of the Order of Australia, 1990, Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians, Matthew Flinders Medal and Lecture, 1963
member of: Royal Society of London, German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, from 1961, Pontifical Academy of Sciences, Australian Academy of Science, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, National Academy of Sciences, from 1966, American Philosophical Society, from 1964, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, from 1963
Wikipedia: in 59 languages

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Elsewhere7

identity

stated by WikidataWikipediaJohn Eccles (neurophysiologist)
stated by WikidataWikidataQ273223
stated by WikidataVIAF104834420
stated by WikidataGND118850946
stated by WikidataIdRef028584953
stated by WikidataISNI0000000109301123

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@misc{academicancestry_Q273223,
  author = {{Academic Ancestry}},
  title = {{John Carew Eccles: advisors and students}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://academicancestry.org/person/Q273223},
  note = {read on 2026-10-22}
}

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Academic Ancestry. (2026, October 22). John Carew Eccles: Advisors and students [Read on 2026-10-22]. https://academicancestry.org/person/Q273223