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Alan Hodgkin

1914–1998 · Neurophysiology

Lifespan
1914–1998
Field
Neurophysiology
Nationality
British
Nobel
Medicine 1963

Known For

With Huxley, measured the action potential in a squid's giant axon and modelled it well enough to predict it — the first quantitative account of how a nerve fires.

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