Sir John Carew Eccles was an Australian neurophysiologist and philosopher who won the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on the synapse. He shared the prize with Andrew Huxley and Alan Lloyd Hodgkin. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1963, announced October 17, 1963. Sir John Eccles, Alan Hodgkin, and Andrew Huxley, “for their discoveries concerning the ionic mechanisms involved in excitation and inhibition in the peripheral and central portions of the nerve cell membrane”. Sir John Eccles: born 1903, Melbourne, Australia. Alan Hodgkin: born 1914, Banbury, United Kingdom. Andrew Huxley: born 1917, Hampstead, United Kingdom. Wiki link Wiki link Wiki link Data: the Nobel Foundation (CC0).