Charles Bell

Sir Charles Bell (1774 - 1842) was a British anatomist and surgeon.

He was professor at the Royal College of Surgeons before becoming professor of surgery at the University of Edinburgh in 1836. He published detailed studies of the nervous sytem and brain, and was the first to distinguish between sensory and motor nerves. He is the eponym of Bell's palsy and Bell's law. He was knighted in 1829.