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Also Known As Sir Alan Lloyd Hodgkin
Born February 5, 1914 • Banbury • England
Died December 20, 1998 (aged 84) • Cambridge • England
Awards And Honors Copley Medal (1965) • Nobel Prize (1963)
Subjects Of Study nerve impulse

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Sir Henry Dale, 1956.
Sir Henry Dale
British physiologist
Sir Bernard Katz
British physiologist
Crick, Francis
Francis Crick
British biophysicist
A.V. Hill, detail of a pencil drawing by F.W. Schmin, 1923
A.V. Hill
British physiologist and biophysicist
Andrew Fielding Huxley
Sir Andrew Fielding Huxley
British physiologist
Lord Adrian. 1956.
Edgar Douglas Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian
British electrophysiologist
Peter B. Medawar, 1960.
Sir Peter B. Medawar
British zoologist
Frederick Gowland Hopkins
Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins
British biochemist
Sir Charles Sherrington.
Sir Charles Scott Sherrington
British physiologist
Watson, James
James Watson
American geneticist and biophysicist
Maurice Wilkins with a model of a DNA molecule, 1962.
Maurice Wilkins
British biophysicist
Sir James Black
Scottish pharmacologist
Sir Hans Adolf Krebs
Sir Hans Adolf Krebs
German-British biochemist
César Milstein
Argentine immunologist
Nurse, Paul
Paul Nurse
British scientist
Martin Evans
Martin Evans
British scientist
Lord Florey.
Howard Walter Florey, Baron Florey
Australian pathologist
Rodney Robert Porter
British biochemist
Sir Peter Mansfield
British physicist
Sir John Robert Vane
British biochemist

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