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Hodgkin, Sir Alan Lloyd
191498, English biophysicist. For their work in analyzing the electrical and chemical events in nerve-cell discharge, he and Andrew Huxley shared with Sir John Eccles the 1963 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine. He was a research professor of the Royal Society (195269) and professor of biophysics at Cambridge Univ. (197081).