Alan Hodgkin
Physiologist and biophysicist (1914-1998)
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Updated 2026-05-29
Decoded how neurons fire by measuring squid axons in the 1950s. Hodgkin's work with Huxley earned them the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine and basically rewired our understanding of how brains actually work.
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Sir Alan Lloyd Hodgkin was an English physiologist and biophysicist who shared the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Andrew Huxley and John Eccles.
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