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Jun 1, 2012 · Working together in 1939, and again from 1946 to 1952, Alan Hodgkin and Andrew Huxley formed one of the most productive and influential collaborations in the history of physiology.
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The cover of the 1963 Nobel Prize Programme. Huxley, left,...
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Two views of the same axon are visible from an ingenious...
- The Components of Membrane Conductance in The Giant Axon of Loligo
HODGKIN AL, HUXLEY AF, KATZ B. Measurement of...
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Alan Hodgkin and Andrew Huxley described the model in 1952 to explain the ionic mechanisms underlying the initiation and propagation of action potentials in the squid giant axon. They received the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for this work.
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". To cite this section.
Sep 16, 2009 · Seeking ways of measuring electrical currents inside nerves, Alan Hodgkin and his student Andrew Huxley turned to giant nerve fibres in the squid, which are almost a thousand times thicker than their human counterparts.
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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Both Sir Alan Hodgkin and Sir Andrew Huxley were Fellows and Presidents of the Royal Society, and they served sequentially as Master of Trinity College. During WW2, Sir Alan Hodgkin worked on aviation medicine and radar; Sir Andrew Huxley worked for Anti-Aircraft Command and for the Admiralty.
