biography
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Hodgkin, Sir Alan (Lloyd)
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| male
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| lived:
| (1914–98)
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| biography:
| Physiologist, born in Banbury, North Oxfordshire, SC England, UK. He studied at Cambridge, worked on the development of radar (1939–45), was a lecturer at Cambridge (1945–52), becoming Royal Society research professor (1952–69), and professor of biophysics at Cambridge (1970–81). With his former student Andrew Huxley he researched the passage of impulses in nerve fibres, for which they shared the 1963 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. |
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