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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"
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 Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Jun 1, 2012 · Together with John Carew Eccles (27 January 1903–2 May 1997), Andrew Fielding Huxley (22 November 1917) and Alan Lloyd Hodgkin (5 February 1914–20 December 1998) won the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ‘for their discoveries concerning the ionic mechanisms involved in excitation and inhibition in the peripheral and central ...
- Christof J. Schwiening
- 10.1113/jphysiol.2012.230458
- 2012
- J Physiol. 2012 Jun 1; 590(Pt 11): 2571-2575.
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 nerve...
- Trevor Lamb
- 1999
Learn how Hodgkin and his partner Andrew Huxley used the squid giant axon and the voltage clamp method to formulate the Hodgkin-Huxley equation, which describes the electrical activity of nerve cells. See how they applied their biophysical approach to the Marine Biological Laboratory in Plymouth and Woods Hole.
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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"
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