Alan Lloyd Hodgkin

Alan Lloyd Hodgkin

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1963

University of Cambridge

“for their discoveries concerning the ionic mechanisms involved in excitation and inhibition in the peripheral and central portions of the nerve cell membrane”

Alan Lloyd Hodgkin was a British physiologist and biophysicist. He shared the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries concerning the ionic mechanisms involved in excitation and inhibition in the peripheral and central portions of the nerve cell membrane.

Field
Biology · Neuroscience
Lifespan
1914–1998