| 1903 | Born in Melbourne, Australia |
| 1925 | Bachelor of Medicine (MB) and Surgery (BS), Univ. Melbourne |
| 1926-1929 | MA and PhD completed at the University of Oxford |
| 1927-1937 | Fellowships with Prof. C. S. Sherrington, Univ. of Oxford |
| 1937-1943 | Director Kanematsu Memorial Institute of Pathology, Sydney |
| 1938 | Foundation Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians |
| 1941 | Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) |
| 1944-1951 | Professor of Physiology at the Univ. of Otago, New Zealand |
| 1952-1966 | Professor of Physiology, Australian National University Canberra |
| 1954 | Foundation Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science |
| 1957-1961 | President of the Australian Academy of Science |
| 1958 | Knight Bachelor |
| 1963 | Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine (with A.L. Hodgkin and A.F. Huxley) |
| 1966-1968 | Senior Researcher at the Institute for Biomedical Research, Chicago |
| 1968-1975 | Distinguished Professor of Physiology and Biophysics, State Univ. Buffalo |
| 1975-1997 | Senior scholar and author living in Ticino, Switzerland |
cf. D. Curtis & P. Andersen: John Carew Eccles (1903-1997), in: Historical Records of Australian Science 13 (4), 439-73 (doi:10.1071/HR0011340439)