1914–1998 English physiologist and biophysicist who made fundamental discoveries about the mechanisms of nervous system activity and the conduction of nerve impulses.
Keywords: action potential; electrophysiology; Huxley; nerve membrane
Hodgkin, Alan Lloyd
EM Tansey, Welcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London, UK
Published online: April 2001
DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0002420
| Further Reading | |
| book Hodgkin AL (1964) The Conduction of the Nervous Impulse. Liverpool, UK: Liverpool University Press. | |
| book Hodgkin AL (1977) "Chance and design in electro-physiology: an informal account of certain experiments on nerve carried out between 1934 and 1952". The Pursuit of Nature: Informal Essays on the History of Physiology, pp.1–27. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. | |
| Hodgkin AL (1983) Beginning: some reminiscences of my early life (1914–1947). Annual Review of Physiology 45: 1–16. | |
| book Hodgkin AL (1992) Chance and Design: Reminiscences of Science in Peace and War. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. | |
| book Weismann S (1990) "Sir Alan Lloyd Hodgkin". In: Fox DM, Meldrum M and Rezak I (eds) Nobel Laureates in Medicine or Physiology: A Biographical Dictionary, pp. 255–260. New York: Garland. | |
