Alan Hodgkin

Sir

Alan Lloyd Hodgkin

OM KBE FRS
Sir; Alan Lloyd Hodgkin; OM KBE FRS
Born	5 February 1914; Banbury, Oxfordshire, England
Died	20 December 1998 (aged 84); Cambridge, England
Nationality	English
Citizenship	British
Alma mater	University of Cambridge
Known for	Hodgkin cycle; Hodgkin–Huxley model; Hodgkin–Huxley sodium channels; Goldman–Hodgkin–Katz flux equation; Goldman–Hodgkin–Katz voltage equation
Spouse	Marion Rous
Children	Sarah, Deborah, Jonathan Hodgkin, and Rachel
Awards	Royal Medal (1958); Physiological Society Annual Review Prize Lecture (1976); Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1963); Copley Medal (1965); Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences (1964);
	Scientific career
Fields	Physiology; Biophysics

Sir Alan Lloyd Hodgkin OM KBE FRS (5 February 1914 – 20 December 1998) was an English physiologist and biophysicist who shared the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Andrew Huxley and John Eccles.

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