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Edward Perl
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<p>Edward Roy Perl (October 6, 1926 – July 15, 2014) was an American <a href="/facts/Neuroscientist/DvcNRpyM">neuroscientist</a> whose research focused on neural mechanisms of and circuitry involved in <a href="/facts/Somatic_sensation/0nhRsBnt">somatic sensation</a>, principally <a href="/facts/Nociception/v0DsC73C">nociception</a>. Work in his laboratory in the late 1960s established the existence of unique <a href="/facts/Nociceptors/f3UsD9gm">nociceptors</a>. Perl was one of the founding members of the <a href="/facts/Society_for_Neuroscience/LPxz9w6q">Society for Neuroscience</a> and served as its first president. He was a <a href="/facts/Sarah_Graham_Kenan/5srQD8nK">Sarah Graham Kenan</a> Professor of Cell Biology & Physiology and a member of the UNC Neuroscience Center at the <a href="/facts/University_of_North_Carolina_at_Chapel_Hill/Wrd3mBWz">University of North Carolina</a> <a href="/facts/University_of_North_Carolina_School_of_Medicine/xKkr42WK">School of Medicine</a>. </p>