Charles Scott Sherrington - Honours and Awards

Honours and Awards

  • 1899 Baly Gold Medal of the Royal College of Physicians of London
  • 1905 Royal Medal of the Royal Society of London
  • 1922 Knight Grand Cross of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire
  • 1924 Order of Merit
  • 1932 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine

At the time of his death Sherrington received honoris causa Doctors from twenty-two universities: Oxford, Paris, Manchester, Strasbourg, Louvain, Uppsala, Lyon, Budapest, Athens, London, Toronto, Harvard, Dublin, Edinburgh, Montreal, Liverpool, Brussels, Sheffield, Bern, Birmingham, Glasgow, and the University of Wales.

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