Alan Lloyd Hodgkin
Affiliations: | University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England, United Kingdom |
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"Alan Hodgkin"Bio:
(1914 - 1998)
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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1963 was awarded jointly to Sir John Carew Eccles, Alan Lloyd Hodgkin and Andrew Fielding Huxley "for their discoveries concerning the ionic mechanisms involved in excitation and inhibition in the peripheral and central portions of the nerve cell membrane".
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Parents
Sign in to add mentorEdgar Douglas Adrian | grad student | 1936 | Cambridge | |
Kenneth S. Cole | post-doc | 1937-1937 | MBL (Chemistry Tree) | |
(Hodgkin worked with Cole--and Curtis--for only a few weeks at Woods Hole, but this was Hodgkin's introduction to the squid giant axon, which obviously had a profound influence on his life.) | ||||
Herbert S. Gasser | post-doc | 1937-1938 | Rockefeller |
Children
Sign in to add traineeRichard Hume Adrian | grad student | Cambridge | |
David J. Aidley | grad student | Oxford | |
Peter F. Baker | grad student | University of Cambridge, Kings College London (Physiology Academic Tree) | |
Richard Keynes | grad student | Cambridge | |
Trevor Ian Shaw | grad student | ||
Peter R. Stanfield | grad student | Cambridge | |
Andrew Fielding Huxley | grad student | 1939-1941 | Marine Biological Laboratory |
Ian M. Glynn | grad student | 1956 | Cambridge |
Jared M. Diamond | grad student | 1961 | Cambridge (Evolution Tree) |
W. Knox Chandler | post-doc | Cambridge | |
Peter B. Detwiler | post-doc | Cambridge | |
Paul Horowicz | post-doc | Cambridge | |
Peter A. McNaughton | post-doc | Cambridge | |
Shigehiro Nakajima | post-doc | Cambridge | |
W. Geoffrey Owen | post-doc | Cambridge | |
Rick Steinhardt | post-doc | ||
Vincent Torre | post-doc | SISSA | |
Silvio Weidmann | post-doc | 1948-1950 | Cambridge |
Bertil Hille | post-doc | 1967-1968 | Cambridge |
Denis A. Baylor | post-doc | 1970-1972 | Cambridge |
King-Wai Yau | post-doc | 1979-1980 | Cambridge |
Collaborators
Sign in to add collaboratorMike G. Fuortes | collaborator | |||
Bernard Katz | collaborator | |||
Andrew Fielding Huxley | collaborator | 1939-1963 | ||
(Huxley was a student of Hodgkin's before collaborating with him.) | ||||
Mordecai Blaustein | collaborator | 1966-1969 | Cambridge (Chemistry Tree) |
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Hodgkin AL, Huxley AF. (1990) A quantitative description of membrane current and its application to conduction and excitation in nerve. 1952. Bulletin of Mathematical Biology. 52: 25-71; discussion 5- |
Hodgkin AL, McNaughton PA, Nunn BJ. (1987) Measurement of sodium-calcium exchange in salamander rods. The Journal of Physiology. 391: 347-70 |
Hodgkin AL, McNaughton PA, Nunn BJ. (1985) The ionic selectivity and calcium dependence of the light-sensitive pathway in toad rods. The Journal of Physiology. 358: 447-68 |
Hodgkin AL, McNaughton PA, Nunn BJ, et al. (1984) Effect of ions on retinal rods from Bufo marinus. The Journal of Physiology. 350: 649-80 |
Yau KW, McNaughton PA, Hodgkin AL. (1981) Effect of ions on the light-sensitive current in retinal rods. Nature. 292: 502-5 |
Detwiler PB, Hodgkin AL, McNaughton PA. (1980) Temporal and spatial characteristics of the voltage response of rods in the retina of the snapping turtle. The Journal of Physiology. 300: 213-50 |
Detwiler PB, Hodgkin AL. (1979) Electrical coupling between cones in turtle retina. The Journal of Physiology. 291: 75-100 |
Detwiler P, Hodgkin A, Mcnaughton P. (1979) The spread of voltage and desensitization in the network of rods in the turtle's retina Vision Research. 19: 356 |
Detwiler PB, Hodgkin AL, McNaughton PA. (1978) A surprising property of electrical spread in the network of rods in the turtle's retina. Nature. 274: 562-5 |
Fuortes MG, Hodgkin AL. (1977) Elliott J. Simon. Vision Research. 17: 607 |