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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...
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    neurons and muscle cells. It is a continuous-time dynamical system. Alan Hodgkin and Andrew Huxley described the model in 1952 to explain the ionic mechanisms...
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  • Look up Hodgkin in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Hodgkin is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Alan Lloyd Hodgkin (1914–1998), British...
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  • Thomas Hodgkin (bearing the same name), and Nobel laureate physiologist Alan Hodgkin. For clarity, the tree does not include every family member. It is focused...
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  • Jonathan Alan Hodgkin (born 1949) FRS is a British biochemist, Professor of Genetics at the University of Oxford and an emeritus fellow of Keble College...
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    Trinity College, Cambridge, on a scholarship, after which he joined Alan Hodgkin to study nerve impulses. Their eventual discovery of the basis for propagation...
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    Prize-winning work uncovering ionic mechanism of action potentials, Alan Hodgkin and Andrew Huxley performed experiments on the squid giant axon, using...
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  • Goldman of Columbia University, and the Medicine Nobel laureates Alan Lloyd Hodgkin and Bernard Katz. The GHK voltage equation for M {\displaystyle M}...
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    conduction. These are sometimes known as Hodgkin-Huxley sodium channels because they were first characterized by Alan Hodgkin and Andrew Huxley in their Nobel...
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    Sir Gordon Howard Eliott Hodgkin CH CBE (6 August 1932 – 9 March 2017) was a British painter and printmaker. His work is most often associated with abstraction...
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    Goeppert Mayer; J. Hans D. Jensen Karl Ziegler; Giulio Natta John Eccles; Alan Hodgkin; Andrew Huxley Giorgos Seferis International Committee of the Red Cross;...
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    Thomas Hodgkin, FBA (29 July 1831 – 2 March 1913) was a British historian, biographer, banker, and Quaker minister. Hodgkin's magnum opus, Italy and Her...
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    were the first to identify and characterize the axonal initial segment. Alan Hodgkin and Andrew Huxley also employed the squid giant axon (1939) and by 1952...
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    Denis Noble in cardiac muscle cells in 1960s and by Richard Adrian and Alan Hodgkin in 1970 in skeletal muscle cells. A channel that is "inwardly-rectifying"...
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  • Frank Morton McMurry Lawrence Zalcman Imre Lakatos William C. Wimsatt Alan Hodgkin Andrew Huxley Meno How to solve it Mathematics and Plausible Reasoning...
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    of the electrical properties of nerve cells, culminating in work by Alan Hodgkin, Andrew Huxley, and others on the biophysics of the action potential...
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    Physics 1951 Richard Synge Chemistry 1952 John Kendrew Chemistry 1962 Alan Hodgkin Physiology or Medicine 1963 Andrew Huxley Physiology or Medicine 1963...
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    specialities. The last classical physiology laureates were John Eccles, Alan Hodgkin, and Andrew Huxley in 1963 for their findings regarding "unitary electrical...
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    Highgate. Back in England he also worked with the 1963 Nobel prize winners Alan Hodgkin and Andrew Huxley. Katz was made a professor at UCL in 1952 and head...
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  • sciences and Nobel Prizes including Edgar Adrian (1932) Henry Dale (1936) Alan Hodgkin (1963) Andrew Huxley (1963) Roger Y. Tsien (2008) Robert G. Edwards (2010)...
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    action potential the membrane potential might reach +40 mV. In 1963, Alan Lloyd Hodgkin and Andrew Fielding Huxley won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine...
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    fibers, based on axonal conduction velocity, myelination, fiber size etc. Alan Hodgkin and Andrew Huxley also employed the squid giant axon (1939) and by 1952...
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    because it was based on their collaborative work. Andrew Huxley, whom Alan Hodgkin described as "wizard with scientific apparatus", had just discovered...
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  • the 1960s. She was the daughter of Francis Peyton Rous and wife of Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, both Nobel Prize winners. Born Marion Rous in New York City, she...
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    and for the controversial therapeutic value of leucotomy respectively. Alan Hodgkin, Andrew Huxley, and Sir John Eccles (1963) for discovering the ionic...
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    (born in 1852), and physiologists Charles Sherrington, Edgar Adrian, Alan Hodgkin, and Andrew Huxley. Charles Sherrington, who was born in Great Britain...
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    model organism in neuroscience and it was used by Andrew Huxley and Alan Hodgkin in their studies on axons. Its axon is the largest axon known to science...
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  • Lawrence Gowing, painter W. Brian Harland (1917-2003), geologist Sir Alan Hodgkin, neuroscientist and Nobel laureate Humphrey Kay (1923–2009), pathologist...
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  • 1988 Wellcome Research Laboratories Alan Hodgkin Physiology or Medicine 1963 University of Cambridge Dorothy Hodgkin Chemistry 1964 University of Oxford...
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    called end plates. The pioneers in this area included Bernard Katz and Alan Hodgkin, who used the squid giant axon as an experimental model for the study...
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