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HODGKIN, Sir Alan Lloyd (1914 – 1998)

HODGKIN, Sir Alan Lloyd (1914 – 1998)

1914 – 1998

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1939 CE

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Action potentials recorded from inside a nerve fibre.

HODGKIN, Sir Alan Lloyd (1914 – 1998)
HODGKIN, Sir Alan Lloyd (1914 – 1998)
HUXLEY, Sir Andrew Fielding (1917 – 2012)
HUXLEY, Sir Andrew Fielding (1917 – 2012)

Hodgkin and Huxley were the first to succeed in inserting electrodes into a living giant nerve fiber and to measure directly the action potential within it. In 1963 Hodgkin and Huxley shared the Nobel Prize in Physiol…