Alan Lloyd Hodgkin

Sir Alan Lloyd Hodgkin ( born February 5, 1914 in Banbury, Oxfordshire, England; † December 20, 1998 in Cambridge, England ) was a British biochemist who, together with Sir John Carew Eccles and Andrew Fielding Huxley for " discoveries about 1963 ion mechanism, which takes place at the excitation and inhibition in the peripheral and central portions of the nerve cell membrane " was honored with the Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Training

Hodgkin visited the Downs School in Malvern (1923-1927), the Gresham's School in Holt (1927-1932) and then Trinity College, Cambridge (1932-1936), where he took biology and chemistry. After an invitation to work at the Rockefeller Institute in New York (1937-1938), he returned to Cambridge, where then also his collaboration with Huxley began.

Research

The neuro- physiological work for which the research team received the Nobel Prize, were performed on the Riesenaxonen of squid, which are particularly suitable because of their size for research activities. According to him, the Goldmann -Hodgkin -Katz equation is named after which the resting membrane potential of cells can figure out.

Together with Andrew Fielding Huxley, he developed the Hodgkin -Huxley model, a biologically detailed neuron model, which is significant for computational neuroscience and neuro computer science.

Other honors

Hodgkin was awarded a number of honors. In 1948 he was elected as a member ( "Fellow" ) to the Royal Society, in 1958, the Royal Medal in 1965 and the Copley Medal awarded him. He was knighted ( "Knight Commander" of the Order of the British Empire ), 1972; 1973 Order of Merit he was awarded.