Alan Hodgkin
Physiologist and biophysicist (1914-1998)
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Lived 1914–1998, aged 84United Kingdom
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He cracked the code of the nerve impulse — the electrical spike that lets you think, move, feel — and won a Nobel for it.
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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.
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