Bradley J K, Tansey E M
Department of History of Science, Technology & Medicine, Imperial College, London.
Notes Rec R Soc Lond. 1996 Jul;50(2):217-28. doi: 10.1098/rsnr.1996.0024.
E.D. Adrian, F.R.S. (1889-1975) was one of Britain's most distinguished neurophysiologists, who, during a long and productive lifetime, achieved most honours and distinctions available to a scientific man. These included the 1932 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, shared with Sir Charles Sherrington, F.R.S., the Order of Merit (1942), and Presidency of the Royal Society (1950-55). His interest in the nervous system started at the beginning of his undergraduate career, much influenced by his Director of Studies, Keith Lucas, F.R.S. (1879-1916). Lucas, a skilled and imaginative neurophysiologist, was particularly renowned for his technical ability to design and build new equipment. In turn, his pupil's work on recording and analysing the electrical impulses in nervous tissue was also facilitated by the development of appropriate, sensitive instrumentation. This paper will describe Adrian's first use of valve amplifiers to enlarge the extremely small electrical signals then obtainable in the physiological laboratory, a development that epitomized the beginning of the electronic revolution in life sciences' laboratories.
爱德华·D·阿德里安，皇家学会会员（1889 - 1975）是英国最杰出的神经生理学家之一。在漫长而成果丰硕的一生中，他获得了一位科学家所能获得的大多数荣誉和殊荣。这些荣誉包括1932年与皇家学会会员查尔斯·谢灵顿爵士共同获得的诺贝尔生理学或医学奖、功绩勋章（1942年）以及皇家学会会长职位（1950 - 1955年）。他对神经系统的兴趣始于本科学习初期，深受他的导师、皇家学会会员基思·卢卡斯（1879 - 1916）的影响。卢卡斯是一位技艺娴熟且富有想象力的神经生理学家，尤其以设计和制造新设备的技术能力而闻名。相应地，他学生在记录和分析神经组织电冲动方面的工作也因合适的灵敏仪器的发展而得到推动。本文将描述阿德里安首次使用电子管放大器来放大当时在生理实验室中可获得的极其微弱的电信号这一情况，这一发展是生命科学实验室电子革命开端的典型代表。
