Alan Hodgkin
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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.
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Sir Alan Lloyd Hodgkin | |
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Born | (1914-02-05)5 February 1914 Banbury, Oxfordshire, England |
Died | 20 December 1998(1998-12-20) (aged 84) Cambridge, England |
Nationality | English |
Citizenship | British |
Alma mater | University of Cambridge |
Known for | Hodgkin cycle Hodgkin–Huxley model Hodgkin–Huxley sodium channels Goldman–Hodgkin–Katz flux equation Goldman–Hodgkin–Katz voltage equation |
Spouse | Marion Rous |
Children | Sarah, Deborah, Jonathan Hodgkin, and Rachel |
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Scientific career | |
Fields | Physiology Biophysics |
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