Alan Lloyd Hodgkin
Also known as Alan Hodgkin, A. L. Hodgkin, Sir Alan Lloyd Hodgkin
physiologist and biophysicist (1914-1998)
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Alan Lloyd Hodgkin was a British physiologist and biophysicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1963 for his groundbreaking work explaining how nerve cells transmit electrical signals. His discoveries about the mechanisms of nerve impulses laid the foundation for modern neuroscience and our understanding of how the brain and nervous system function.
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- The conduction of the nervous impluse
- The conduction of the nervous impulse
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Sir Alan Lloyd Hodgkin (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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