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Alan Hodgkin

Alan Hodgkin, a British biophysicist, is depicted wearing glasses and a brown sweater over a collared shirt, set against a dark background.

British biophysicist (1914–1998) who, working with Andrew Huxley at Cambridge and Plymouth in the late 1940s, used voltage-clamp recordings on the squid giant axon to dissect the ionic basis of the nerve impulse. Their 1952 mathematical model of sodium and potassium conductances remains the foundation of computational neuroscience. He shared the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

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