Charles Scott Sherrington ( November 27 , 1857 - March 4 , 1952 ) was an English doctor . Sir Charles Scott Sherrington , OM , GBE , PRS ( 27 November 1857 - 4 March 1952 ) was an English neurophysiologist , histologist , bacteriologist , and a pathologist , Nobel laureate and president of the Royal Society in the early 1920s .