Edgar Douglas Adrian , 1st Baron Adrian OM PRS ( 30 November 1889-8 August 1977 ) was an English doctor . He won the 1932 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine , along with Charles Scott Sherrington , for the discovery of neurons . Edgar Douglas Adrian , 1st Baron Adrian OM PRS ( 30 November 1889 -- 4 August 1977 ) was a British electrophysiologist and recipient of the 1932 Nobel Prize for Physiology , won jointly with Sir Charles Sherrington for work on the function of neurons .