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Alan Lloyd Hodgkin

nobel prize for medicine


Details of the Nobel Prize awarded to Alan Lloyd Hodgkin
Full Name
of the recipient		Alan Lloyd Hodgkin
AwardNobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Year of Award1963
Share in Award33.3%
Award Shared withSir John Carew Eccles (33.3%)
Andrew Fielding Huxley (33.3%)
Motivation
for the Award		for their discoveries concerning the ionic mechanisms involved in excitation and inhibition in the peripheral and central portions of the nerve cell membrane
Affiliation
at the Time of Award		University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Place of BirthBanbury, United Kingdom GBR
Date of Birth5 February 1914
Age
at the time of Award		48 years
Place of DeathCambridge, United Kingdom GBR
Date of Death20 December 1998
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