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Sir
Alan Lloyd Hodgkin
OM KBE FRS
Born(1914-02-05)5 February 1914
Banbury, Oxfordshire, England
Died20 December 1998(1998-12-20) (aged 84)
Cambridge, England
NationalityEnglish
CitizenshipBritish
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge
Known forHodgkin cycle
Hodgkin–Huxley model
Hodgkin–Huxley sodium channels
Goldman–Hodgkin–Katz flux equation
Goldman–Hodgkin–Katz voltage equation
SpouseMarion Rous
ChildrenSarah, Deborah, Jonathan Hodgkin, and Rachel
Awards
  • Royal Medal (1958)
  • Physiological Society Annual Review Prize Lecture (1976)
  • Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1963)
  • Copley Medal (1965)
  • Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences (1964)
Scientific career
FieldsPhysiology
Biophysics

Sir Alan Lloyd Hodgkin OM KBE FRS[1] (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.

  1. ^ Huxley, Andrew (2000). "Sir Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, O.M., K.B.E. 5 February 1914 – 20 December 1998: Elected F.R.S. 1948". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 46: 219–241. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1999.0081.

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