Alan Lloyd Hodgkin

Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, Nobel Laureate

Born: 1914-02-05 in Banbury, United Kingdom

Gender: male

Field: English physiologist and biophysicist

Biography

Sir Alan Lloyd Hodgkin was an English physiologist and biophysicist who shared the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Andrew Huxley and John Eccles.

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Nobel Prize Details

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1963

Awarded on: 1963-10-17

"for their discoveries concerning the ionic mechanisms involved in excitation and inhibition in the peripheral and central portions of the nerve cell membrane"

Affiliations:

  • University of CambridgeCambridge, United Kingdom