Sir Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, OM, KBE, FRS (5 February 1914, Banbury, Oxfordshire, England – 20 December 1998 Cambridge) was a British physiologist and biophysicist, who won the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Hodgkin was educated at The Downs School (Malvern), Gresham's School, Holt, and Trinity College, Cambridge.
In 1930, he was the winner of a bronze medal in the Public Schools Essay Competition organized by the Royal Society for the Pr...
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Sir Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, OM, KBE, FRS (5 February 1914, Banbury, Oxfordshire, England – 20 December 1998 Cambridge) was a British physiologist and biophysicist, who won the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Hodgkin was educated at The Downs School (Malvern), Gresham's School, Holt, and Trinity College, Cambridge.
In 1930, he was the winner of a bronze medal in the Public Schools Essay Competition organized by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds.
During the Second World War, he volunteered to work on Aviation Medicine at Farnborough and was subsequently transferred to the Telecommunications Research Establishment (TRE) where he worked on the development of centimetric radar, including the design of the Village Inn AGLT airborne gun-laying system. Earlier, in March 1941, Hodgkin had flown on the test flight of a Bristol Blenheim fitted with the first airborne centimetric radar system.
With Andrew Fielding Huxley, Hodgkin worked on experimental measurements and...
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