Editing John Eccles (neurophysiologist) (section)

===Early life===
Eccles was born in [[Melbourne]], Australia. He grew up there with his two sisters and his parents: William and Mary Carew Eccles (both teachers, who [[home schooled]] him until he was 12).<ref name="SirBio">{{cite book |last1= McGrath |first1= K. A. |title= World of Anatomy and Physiology |url= https://archive.org/details/worldofanatomyph0000unse |date= July 2005 |publisher= Gale |isbn= 978-0-7876-5684-3 |chapter= John C. Eccles, Sir |chapter-url= http://www.bookrags.com/biography/john-c-eccles-sir-wap/ |url-access= registration }}
</ref> He initially attended Warrnambool High School<ref name=AAS>{{cite web |url= https://www.science.org.au/fellowship/fellows/biographical-memoirs/john-carew-eccles-1903-1997 |work=Biographical memoirs |title= John Carew Eccles 1903–1997 |publisher=[[Australian Academy of Science]] |author1=  David R. Curtis |author2= Per Andersen }} originally published in ''Historical Records of Australian Science'', vol.13, no.4, 2001.</ref> (now [[Warrnambool College]]) (where a science wing is named in his honour), then completed his final year of schooling at [[Melbourne High School (Victoria)|Melbourne High School]]. Aged 17, he was awarded a senior scholarship to study medicine at the [[University of Melbourne]].<ref name=AAS/> As a medical undergraduate, he was never able to find a satisfactory explanation for the interaction of mind and body; he started to think about becoming a neuroscientist. He graduated (with first class honours) in 1925,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://biotechnology-innovation.com.au/scientists/john_eccles.html|title=Sir John Carew Eccles|quote=As a medical student he was greatly influenced by [[Charles Darwin]]'s ''[[Origin of Species]]''|publisher=Biotecnology-innovation.com.au|access-date=26 June 2015|archive-date=4 March 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150304101256/http://biotechnology-innovation.com.au/scientists/john_eccles.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> and was awarded a [[Rhodes Scholarship]] to study under [[Charles Scott Sherrington]] at [[Magdalen College, Oxford|Magdalen College]], [[University of Oxford|Oxford University]], where he received his Doctor of Philosophy in 1929.

In 1937 Eccles returned to Australia, where he worked on military research during [[World War II]]. During this time, Eccles was the director of the Kanematsu Institute at [[Sydney Medical School]],<ref>[http://sydney.edu.au/medicine/research/units/kanematsu.php] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141110050316/http://sydney.edu.au/medicine/research/units/kanematsu.php|date=10 November 2014}}</ref> where he and [[Bernard Katz]] gave research lectures at the [[University of Sydney]], strongly influencing the intellectual environment of the university.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://australia.gov.au/about-australia/australian-story/australias-nobel-laureates |title=Australia's Nobel Laureates |publisher=Australia.gov.au |access-date=26 June 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140814115156/http://australia.gov.au/about-australia/australian-story/australias-nobel-laureates |archive-date=14 August 2014 |url-status=dead }}</ref> After the war, he became a professor at the [[University of Otago]] in New Zealand. From 1952 to 1962, he worked as a professor at the [[John Curtin School of Medical Research]] (JCSMR) of the [[Australian National University]]. From 1966 to 1968, Eccles worked at the [[Feinberg School of Medicine]] at [[Northwestern University]] in [[Chicago]].<ref name="FSM-2023" />