# Alan Hodgkin

> He cracked the code of the nerve impulse — the electrical spike that lets you think, move, feel — and won a Nobel for it.

*Physiologist and biophysicist (1914-1998)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Doctor ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631))
- **Category:** Doctors
- **Country:** United Kingdom
- **Born:** 1914-02-05
- **Died:** 1998-12-20
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Alan Lloyd Hodgkin was born on 5 February 1914 in England. Working as a physiologist and biophysicist, he pursued the mystery of how nerves fire, unraveling the mechanism behind the electrical signals that animate the body. His work earned him a share of the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, awarded jointly with Andrew Huxley and John Eccles. He died on 20 December 1998.

## Fame
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## Topics
#Doctors, #Doctor, #Medicine, #United Kingdom, #Europe, #20th Century

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