Alan Lloyd Hodgkin

Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, Nobel Laureate

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

Gender: male

Field: British physiologist and biophysicist

Biography

Sir Alan Lloyd Hodgkin was a British 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