Sir Alan Lloyd Hodgkin
1914-1998
English Biophysicist and Physiologist
Sir Alan Lloyd Hodgkin was an English biophysicist and physiologist who was awarded the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicin...
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English physiologist Sir Alan Lloyd Hodgkin (1914-1998) received the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine (along with Andrew Huxley and Sir John Eccles) in 1963 for discovery of the chemical process...
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Hodgkin was born in Banbury, Oxfordshire, England, on February 5, 1914. His father died during World War I, leaving his mother to raise Alan and two younger children. After attending local schools in ...
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Alan Lloyd Hodgkin built the foundations of much of modern neuroloscience by defining the electrical and chemical characteristics of nerve impulses. Along with Andrew F. Huxley, the two described the ...
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Alan Lloyd Hodgkin is best known for his work in defining the electrical and chemical characteristics of nerve impulses. Along with Andrew F. Huxley he performed experiments on the nerve fibers of squ...
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Alan Lloyd Hodgkin was best known for his work in defining the electrical and chemical characteristics of nerve impulses. Along with Andrew F. Huxley he performed experiments on the nerve fibers of sq...
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