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At age fifty-six most men are not seeking a new post, a new challenge, nor anything more than a new set of joints, limbs, eyes and possibly ears. Not so Charles Sherrington. In 1913 he entered upon the busiest period of his career, at the very cross-roads of the academic world. Cecil Rhodes’s dictum that nowhere could he find an Oxford man at the top of the scientific tree, was about to be disproven.
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Gibson, W.C. (1979). Oxford 1914–1920. In: Sherrington. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-61864-2_3
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