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# Generated: 2026-08-31T18:42:39.979Z

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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
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.