“Eccles' Model of the Self Controlling Its Brain : The Irrelevance of Dualist-Interactionism”
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Alan Lloyd Hodgkin
Sir Alan Lloyd Hodgkin 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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science · English physiologist and biophysicist · neuroscientist · biochemist · physician · neurologist · physiologist · biophysicist · also Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, Alan Hodgkin, A. L. Hodgkin, Sir Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, Hodgkin
Born 5 February 1914 · Died 20 December 1998 · Q193650
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1998· 1 entry
Died 1998-12-20.
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1991· 1 entry
For Erwin Neher and Bert Sakmann, and in 2003 for Roderick MacKinnon
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1990· 1 entry
“A unitary hypothesis of mind-brain interaction in the cerebral cortex”
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1989· 1 entry
Had surgery to relieve pressure on the spinal cord from one of the intervertebral discs in his neck, which left him unable to walk without support, and with progressive disablement
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1983· 1 entry
– Lord Crook Medal of the Worshipful Company of Spectacle Makers
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1978· 1 entry
Career landmark: Master of Trinity College, Cambridge (1978–1984).
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1976· 1 entry
Awarded Annual Review Prize Lecture (1976).
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1972· 1 entry
And admitted into the Order of Merit in 1973
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1970· 2 entries
Became the John Humphrey Plummer Professor of Biophysics at Cambridge
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Career landmark: President of the Royal Society (1970–1975).
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1965· 1 entry
Won Copley Medal (1965).
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1963· 2 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — 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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Awarded Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1963).
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1958· 1 entry
Won Royal Medal (1958).
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1957· 1 entry
Won Croonian Medal and Lecture (1957).
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1955· 1 entry
Won Baly Medal (1955).
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1952· 1 entry
Published “A quantitative description of membrane current and its application to conduction and excitation in nerve” in The Journal of Physiology — cited 17,818 times.
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1949· 1 entry
Resulted in a series of five papers published in The Journal of Physiology that described what became later known as the Hodgkin–Huxley model of the action potential and eventually earned Hodgkin and Huxley the Nobel Pri
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1947· 1 entry
They had three more children: Deborah Hodgkin (born 2 May 1947), Jonathan Hodgkin (born 24 August 1949), and Rachel Hodgkin (born June 1951).
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1944· 1 entry
(see Wartime activities), they reunited and got married on 31 March
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1937· 1 entry
Hodgkin got to know the American pathologist Francis Peyton Rous who was later awarded the 1966 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
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1936· 1 entry
Hodgkin was invited by Herbert Gasser, then director of the Rockefeller Institute in New York City, to work in his laboratory during 1937–38
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1935· 1 entry
Three years after Hodgkin
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1930· 1 entry
Was the winner of a bronze medal in the Public Schools Essay Competition organised by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
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1918· 1 entry
On a route through the Persian Gulf (as the northern route was closed because of the October Revolution in Russia)
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1916· 1 entry
George Hodgkin travelled to Armenia as part of an investigation of distress
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1914· 1 entry
Born 1914-02-05.
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1866· 1 entry
Thomas Hodgkin (1798–1866), who first described Hodgkin's lymphoma, was Alan Hodgkin's great-uncle.
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