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Hodgkin, Sir Alan Lloyd |
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Hodgkin, Sir Alan Lloyd, 1914–98, English biophysicist. For their work in analyzing the electrical and chemical events in nerve-cell discharge, he and Andrew Huxley Huxley, Andrew Fielding, 1917–, British research scientist, educated at University College, London. He finished his studies at Cambridge after doing operational research for the admiralty during World War II. ..... Click the link for more information. shared with Sir John Eccles Eccles, Sir John Carew (kâr`ē, ĕk`əlz), 1903–97, Australian neurophysiologist. He was educated at the Univ. ..... Click the link for more information. the 1963 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine. He was a research professor of the Royal Society (1952–69) and professor of biophysics at Cambridge Univ. (1970–81). |
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| There is no question that Hodgkin is a vitalist and that aesthetic painting is alive and well in his work, but one has to consider the possibility that his work decadently recapitulates its own history (of which Hodgkin is quite conscious). Hodgkin's disease is named after Thomas Hodgkin, a 19th-century English physician. That's the chance Britain's oldest public gallery took when it asked Howard Hodgkin to exhibit his paintings alongside its collection. |
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