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Sir Alan Lloyd Hodgkin OM KBE FRS (5 February 1914 – 20 December 1998) was an English physiologist and biophysicist who shared the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Andrew Huxley and John Eccles.
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1963 was awarded jointly to Sir John Carew Eccles, Alan Lloyd Hodgkin and Andrew Fielding Huxley "for their discoveries concerning the ionic mechanisms involved in excitation and inhibition in the peripheral and central portions of the nerve cell membrane"
Dec 20, 1998 · Alan Lloyd Hodgkin. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1963. Born: 5 February 1914, Banbury, United Kingdom. Died: 20 December 1998, Cambridge, United Kingdom. Affiliation at the time of the award: University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
Sir Alan Hodgkin was an English physiologist and biophysicist, who received (with Andrew Fielding Huxley and Sir John Eccles) the 1963 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of the chemical processes responsible for the passage of impulses along individual nerve fibres.
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1963 was awarded jointly to Sir John Carew Eccles, Alan Lloyd Hodgkin and Andrew Fielding Huxley "for their discoveries concerning the ionic mechanisms involved in excitation and inhibition in the peripheral and central portions of the nerve cell membrane". To cite this section.
Apr 30, 1999 · Hodgkin was assigned to research on radar and spent the next 5 years working as a physicist, an unusual assignment for a biologist who was self-taught in mathematics and physics, but he was an excellent choice. Hodgkin was a quick study, creative, with penetrating intelligence and common honesty.
1963 Nobel Laureate in Medicine. for their discoveries concerning the ionic mechanisms involved in excitation and inhibition in the peripheral and central portions of the nerve cell membrane.
Alan Hodgkin’s wonderful approach to biology stimulated generations of neuroscientists to the study of nerve, muscle and photoreceptors. His death marks the end of a classic era in...
Jan 14, 1999 · Alan Hodgkin, who died on 20 December 1998, was one of the greatest physiologists of the century. He set the foundations for much of modern neuroscience by explaining the origin of the...
Sir Alan Hodgkin, one of the great physiologists of the twentieth century, died at Cambridge, England on December 20, 1998. He was 84. He was born in Banbury, England and educated...
