British neurophysiologist (born 27 November 1857 in London) died 4 March 1952 in eastbourne, Sussex.Sherrington completed his medical course from 1884 to 1887 and was certified by the Royal College of Physicians in 1886.In 1887, sherrington was appointed lecturer in physiology at st Thomas's medical college in London, where he continued to study the spinal cord.From 1891 to 1905, he succeeded Sir Victor Alexander haden horsley (1857-1916) as chief physician at the brown institute, the centre for the study of physiology and pathology in humans and animals.In 1895, sherrington was appointed professor of physiology at Liverpool holt.In 1932, he Shared the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine with Edgar Douglas Adrian.Sherrington's law: reciprocal innervation law: when a group of muscles is stimulated, the opposite of the activity of the first group of muscles is inhibited.