Editing John Eccles (neurophysiologist) (section)

===Honours===
He was appointed a [[Knight Bachelor]] in 1958 in recognition of services to physiological research.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/1083462 |title= It's an Honour |publisher= [[Australian Government]] |quote= Award: Knight Bachelor |date= 12 June 1958|access-date=26 June 2015 }}</ref>

He won the [[Australian of the Year]] Award in 1963,<ref>{{cite book | author=Lewis, Wendy | title=Australians of the Year | publisher=Pier 9 Press | year=2010 | isbn=978-1-74196-809-5 | author-link=Wendy Lewis }}</ref> the same year he won the Nobel Prize.<ref name="FSM-2023" />

In 1964, he became an honorary member to the [[American Philosophical Society]], and in 1966 he moved to the United States to work as a professor at the Institute for Biomedical Research at the [[Feinberg School of Medicine]] in Chicago.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.riaus.org.au/science/people/healthcare_medicine/john_eccles.jsp |title= Nobel Prize winning pioneer in neurophysiology research |publisher= Ri Aus |quote= Eccles was interested in developing a philosophy of the human person that fitted with brain science |access-date= 26 June 2015 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110221002302/http://www.riaus.org.au/science/people/healthcare_medicine/john_eccles.jsp |archive-date= 21 February 2011 |url-status= dead }}</ref><ref name="FSM-2023">{{cite web |author=Staff |title=Feinberg School of Medicine - Nobel Laureates - John Eccles, awarded 1963 |url=https://www.feinberg.northwestern.edu/about/notable/nobel-laureates.html |date=2023 |work=[[Feinberg School of Medicine]] |url-status=live |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20230319155821/https://www.feinberg.northwestern.edu/about/notable/nobel-laureates.html<!---https://archive.today/wip/w6Ok7---> |archivedate=19 March 2023 |accessdate=19 March 2023 }}</ref> Unhappy with the working conditions there, he left to become a professor at [[University at Buffalo|The State University of New York at Buffalo]] from 1968 until he retired in 1975. After retirement, he moved to Switzerland and wrote on the [[mind–body problem]].

In 1981, Eccles became a founding member of the [[World Cultural Council]].<ref>{{cite web | title = About Us | publisher = [[World Cultural Council]] | url = http://www.consejoculturalmundial.org/about-us/ | access-date = 8 November 2016}}</ref>

In 1990 he was appointed a [[List of Companions of the Order of Australia|Companion]] of the [[Order of Australia]] (AC) in recognition of service to science, particularly in the field of neurophysiology.<ref name=AC>{{cite web |url=https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/883430 |title= Companion of the Order of Australia |quote= In recognition of service to science, particularly in the field of neurophysiology |website=It's an Honour |publisher= Itsanhonour.gov.au |date= 26 January 1990 |access-date=26 June 2015}}</ref> He died at the age of 94 in 1997 in [[Tenero-Contra]], [[Locarno]], Switzerland.<ref name="SirBio"/>

In March 2012, the Eccles Institute of Neuroscience was constructed in a new wing of the [[John Curtin School of Medical Research]], with the assistance of a $63M grant from the Commonwealth Government. In 2021, a new $60M animal research building was opened at the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, and named the Eccles Building.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.otago.ac.nz/otagomagazine/issue50/regulars/addendum/ | title=Addendum | date=21 April 2020 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.otago.ac.nz/campus-development/projects/recent/otago833056.html | title=Eccles Building | date=23 September 2021 }}</ref>

[[Image:Eccles and Hoschl.jpg|300px|right|thumb|John Carew Eccles (right) with Czech psychiatrist [[Cyril Höschl]] (left) in 1993]]