Roman emperor — see hadrian
Name of 6 popes: especially iv (Nicholas Breakyspear k1159 the only English pope (1154*59)

1st Baron Adrian (1889-1977)
British physiologist who received the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine 1932 for his work with Charles Sherrington in the field of nerve impulses and the function of the nerve cell. Adrian was also one of the first to study the electrical activity of the brain.
Adrian was born in London and educated at Cambridge and St Bartholomew's Hospital, London. From 1919 he held academic posts at Cambridge.
Between 1925 and 1933 Adrian successfully recorded trains of nerve impulses traveling in single sensory or motor nerve fibers. He began to use thermionic valve amplifiers and found that in a single nerve fiber the electrical impulse does not change with the nature or strength of the stimulus. He also discovered that some sense organs, such as those concerned with touch, rapidly adapt to a steady stimulus whereas others, such as muscle spindles, adapt slowly or not at all.
Between 1933 and 1946 he worked on the ways in which the nervous system generates rhythmic electrical activity. He was one of the first scientists to use extensively the electroencephalogram (EEG). The last 20 years of his research life, from 1937 to 1959, were spent studying the sense of smell.
Adrian’s works include The Mechanism of Nervous Action 1932 and The Physical Background of Perception 1947.

Množina: Adrians

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(Nicholas Breakspear) (c. 1100-1159) Pope 1154–59, the only British pope. He secured the execution of Arnold of Brescia, crowned Frederick I Barbarossa as German emperor, refused Henry II's request that Ireland should be granted to the English crown in absolute ownership, and was at the height of a quarrel with the emperor when he died.

Množina: Adrianoples

Older name of the Turkish town Edirne, after the Emperor Hadrian, who rebuilt it about AD 125.
A city in northwestern Turkey; a Thracian town that was rebuilt and renamed by the Roman Emperor Hadrian

Množina: Adrianopolis

A city in northwestern Turkey; a Thracian town that was rebuilt and renamed by the Roman Emperor Hadrian