Ferrier Lecture

Ferrier Lecture

The Ferrier Lecture is a Royal Society lectureship given triennially (in years divisible by three). Its name honors the memory of Sir David Ferrier who was a pioneer of research into the nervous system.

List of lecturers

*2001 - Andrew Gino Sita Lumsden
*1998 - Jean-Pierre Changeux
*1995 - Semir Zeki
*1992 - Gerald Westheimer
*1989 - Lawrence Weiskrantz
*1986 - Giles Skey Brindley
*1983 - Leslie Lars Iversen
*1980 - Horace Basil Barlow
*1977 - Janos Szentagothai
*1974 - Wilhelm Siegmund Feldberg
*1971 - David Hunter Hubel and Torsten Nils Wiesel
*1968 - Charles Garrett Phillips
*1965 - Stephen William Kuffler
*1962 - William Albert Hugh Rushton
*1959 - John Carew Eccles
*1956 - Wilfrid Edward Le Gros Clark
*1953 - Francis Martin Rouse Walshe
*1950 - John Zachary Young
*1947 - Wilder Penfield
*1944 - Gordon Morgan Holmes
*1941 - Frederic Charles Bartlett
*1938 - Edgar Douglas Adrian
*1935 - Otto Loewi
*1932 - C. U. Ariens Kappers
*1929 - Charles Sherrington


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