Sir Alan Lloyd Hodgkin OM KBE FRS (5 February 1914 – 20 December 1998) was an English physiologist and biophysicist who shared the 1963 Nobel Prize in...
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neurons and muscle cells. It is a continuous-time dynamical system. Alan Hodgkin and Andrew Huxley described the model in 1952 to explain the ionic mechanisms...
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Thomas Hodgkin (bearing the same name), and Nobel laureate physiologist Alan Hodgkin. For clarity, the tree does not include every family member. It is focused...
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Look up Hodgkin in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Hodgkin is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Alan Lloyd Hodgkin (1914–1998), British...
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Trinity College, Cambridge, on a scholarship, after which he joined Alan Hodgkin to study nerve impulses. Their eventual discovery of the basis for propagation...
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Jonathan Alan Hodgkin (born 1949) FRS is a British biochemist. He is the Professor of Genetics at the University of Oxford and an emeritus fellow of Keble...
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Thomas Hodgkin, FBA (29 July 1831 – 2 March 1913) was a British historian, biographer, banker, and Quaker minister. Hodgkin's magnum opus, Italy and Her...
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Sir Gordon Howard Eliott Hodgkin CH CBE (6 August 1932 – 9 March 2017) was a British painter and printmaker. His work is most often associated with abstraction...
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Goldman equation (redirect from Goldman-Hodgkin-Katz equation)
Goldman of Columbia University, and the Medicine Nobel laureates Alan Lloyd Hodgkin and Bernard Katz. The GHK voltage equation for M {\displaystyle M}...
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conduction. These are sometimes known as Hodgkin-Huxley sodium channels because they were first characterized by Alan Hodgkin and Andrew Huxley in their Nobel...
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Prize-winning work uncovering ionic mechanism of action potentials, Alan Hodgkin and Andrew Huxley performed experiments on the squid giant axon, using...
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Denis Noble in cardiac muscle cells in 1960s and by Richard Adrian and Alan Hodgkin in 1970 in skeletal muscle cells. A channel that is "inwardly-rectifying"...
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Howard Hodgkin, the namesake of Hodgkin's lymphoma Thomas Hodgkin, and Alan Hodgkin, winner of the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Hodgkin left...
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Goeppert Mayer; J. Hans D. Jensen Karl Ziegler; Giulio Natta John Eccles; Alan Hodgkin; Andrew Huxley Giorgos Seferis International Committee of the Red Cross;...
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were the first to identify and characterize the axonal initial segment. Alan Hodgkin and Andrew Huxley also employed the squid giant axon (1939) and by 1952...
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specialities. The last classical physiology laureates were John Eccles, Alan Hodgkin, and Andrew Huxley in 1963 for their findings regarding "unitary electrical...
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Physics 1951 Richard Synge Chemistry 1952 John Kendrew Chemistry 1962 Alan Hodgkin Physiology or Medicine 1963 Andrew Huxley Physiology or Medicine 1963...
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Frank Morton McMurry Lawrence Zalcman Imre Lakatos William C. Wimsatt Alan Hodgkin Andrew Huxley Meno How to solve it Mathematics and Plausible Reasoning...
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because it was based on their collaborative work. Andrew Huxley, whom Alan Hodgkin described as "wizard with scientific apparatus", had just discovered...
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of the electrical properties of nerve cells, culminating in work by Alan Hodgkin, Andrew Huxley, and others on the biophysics of the action potential...
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the 1960s. She was the daughter of Francis Peyton Rous and wife of Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, both Nobel Prize winners. Born Marion Rous in New York City, she...
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and for the controversial therapeutic value of leucotomy respectively. Alan Hodgkin, Andrew Huxley, and Sir John Eccles (1963) for discovering the ionic...
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Highgate. Back in England he also worked with the 1963 Nobel prize winners Alan Hodgkin and Andrew Huxley. Katz was made a professor at UCL in 1952 and head...
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attack by fighter planes. It was designed by Philip Dee and developed by Alan Hodgkin. The device allowed a turret gunner to fire at and hit a target without...
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(born in 1852), and physiologists Charles Sherrington, Edgar Adrian, Alan Hodgkin, and Andrew Huxley. Charles Sherrington, who was born in Great Britain...
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Lawrence Gowing, painter W. Brian Harland (1917-2003), geologist Sir Alan Hodgkin, neuroscientist and Nobel laureate Humphrey Kay (1923–2009), pathologist...
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fibers, based on axonal conduction velocity, myelination, fiber size etc. Alan Hodgkin and Andrew Huxley also employed the squid giant axon (1939) and by 1952...
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was identified by British physiologist and biophysicist Sir Alan Lloyd Hodgkin. The Hodgkin cycle represents a positive feedback loop in which an initial...
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action potential the membrane potential might reach +40 mV. In 1963, Alan Lloyd Hodgkin and Andrew Fielding Huxley won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine...
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and it was the basis of Hodgkin and Huxley's pioneering experiments on the properties of the action potential. Alan Hodgkin realized that, to understand...
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