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Alan Lloyd Hodgkin

1914-02-05 – 1998-12-20

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Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1963Credit: Unknown author

Life & Legacy

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.

Occupation & Career

neuroscientist, biochemist, physician, neurologist, physiologist, biophysicist

Education

Trinity College; Gresham's School; The Downs, Malvern College Prep School

Accomplishments, Inventions & Publications

Fellow of the Royal Society; Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine; Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire; Copley Medal; Royal Medal; Annual Review Prize Lecture; Croonian Medal and Lecture; Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; Baly Medal; Honorary member of the British Biophysical Society

Legacy Highlights

Honors & Awards

Annual Review Prize Lecture · Baly Medal · Copley Medal · Croonian Medal and Lecture · Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences · Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science · Fellow of the Royal Society · Honorary member of the British Biophysical Society · Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire · Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine · Royal Medal

Employer

University of Cambridge

Organizations & Memberships

American Academy of Arts and Sciences · American Association for the Advancement of Science · American Philosophical Society · German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina · National Academy of Sciences · Pontifical Academy of Sciences · Royal Society of London · Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences · Russian Academy of Sciences

Education & Institutions

Gresham's School · The Downs, Malvern College Prep School · Trinity College

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Sources & Provenance

  1. Wikidata population candidate Q193650 — wikidata View source

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