Alan Lloyd Hodgkin

Affiliations:

University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

Area:

Biophysics

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http://nobelprize.org/medicine/laureates/1963/hodgkin-bio.html

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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

Edgar 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

Richard 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

Mike 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