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HODGKIN, Alan was born on February 5, 1914 in Banbury. Son of G. L. Hodgkin and M. F. Wilson.
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Alan Lloyd HODGKIN
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Alan HODGKIN, British physiologist. Medal, Royal Society; Medal, Royal Society; Medal 1983. Medical Research Council 1959-1963, Royal Danish Academy, of Sciences, Leopoldina Academy, German Democratic Republic; American Academy, of Arts and Sciences; Royal Irish Academy, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy, of Sciences 1976.
Education
Gresham"s School, Holt, and Trinity College, Cambridge.
Career
Lecturer, later Assistant Director of Research, Cambridge 1945-1952, John Humphrey Plummer Professor, of Biophysics 1970-1981. Master of Trinity College, Cambridge 1978-1984, Fellow since 1984. Foulerton Research Professor, Royal Society 1952-1969.
President Marine Biological Association 1966-1976.
President, of the Royal Society 1970-1975. Chancellor, Leicester University 1971-1984.
Fellow, Indian National Science Academy, Roval Society of Edinburgh.
Achievements
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English physiologist Sir Alan Lloyd Hodgkin received the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine (along with Andrew Huxley and Sir John Eccles) in 1963 for discovery of the chemical processes responsible for passage of impulses along individual nerve fibers.
Hodgkin was also the discoverer of cell membrane depolarisation sequence now known as the Hodgkin cycle.
Hodgkin was knighted (KCB) in 1972 and appointed to the Order of Merit in 1973. He was elected President of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom in 1966. The Royal Society awarded him its Royal Medal in 1958 and Copley Medal in 1965. A portrait of Hodgkin by Michael Noakes hangs in Trinity College's collection.
Membership
Medical Research Council 1959-1963, Royal Danish Academy, of Sciences, Leopoldina Academy, German Democratic Republic American Academy, of Arts and Sciences. Royal Irish Academy, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy, of Sciences 1976.
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Married Marion de Kay Rous in 1944.
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British