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1. Eccles, John Eccles, Sir John Carew Ecclesnoun

   Australian physiologist noted for his research on the conduction of impulses by nerve cells (1903-1997)

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1. john eccles

   Sir John Carew Eccles was an Australian neurophysiologist and philosopher who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1963 for his pioneering work on the synapse. He shared the prize with Andrew Huxley and Alan Hodgkin, who conducted separate research. Eccles researched the connections between nerve cells (neurons) called synapses, showing their function in transmitting impulses in the central nervous system. He was highly influential in the field of neuroscience and has made significant contributions to the understanding of the brain's functions.

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1. John Eccles

   John Eccles was an English composer. Born in London, eldest son of professional musician Solomon Eccles, John Eccles was appointed to the King's Private Music in 1694, and in 1700 became Master of the King's Musick. Also in 1700 he finished second in a competition to write music for William Congreve's masque The Judgement of Paris. Eccles was very active as a composer for the theatre, and from the 1690s wrote a large amount of incidental music including music for Congreve's Love for Love, John Dryden's The Spanish Friar and William Shakespeare's Macbeth. Jointly with Henry Purcell he wrote incidental music for Thomas d'Urfey's Don Quixote. He became a composer to Drury Lane theatre in 1693 and when some of the actors broke off to form their own company at Lincoln's Inn Fields in 1695, he composed music for them as well. His opera Rinaldo and Armida has recently been published in the Recent Researches of the Music of the Baroque Era series, edited by Steven Plank. Details of publication. Eccles also wrote music for the coronation of Queen Anne and a number of songs. Many of his most famous songs, such as "I burn, I burn" were composed for actress-singer Anne Bracegirdle to perform. Eccles also wrote an all-sung English opera Semele with text by Congreve, but it was not staged until the 20th century. Congreve's libretto would later serve as the basis for George Frideric Handel's Semele.

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