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Alan Hodgkin

1914 - 1998

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Sir Alan Lloyd Hodgkin (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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alan Hodgkin is the 18th most popular physician (up from 182nd in 2019), the 187th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 928th in 2019) and the 5th most popular British Physician.

Alan Hodgkin is most famous for his research on the ionic basis of nerve and muscle action.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Alan Hodgkin ranks 18 out of 726. Before him are Albert Schweitzer, Andreas Vesalius, Edgar Adrian, Ignaz Semmelweis, William Harvey, and Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi. After him are Pedanius Dioscorides, Nestorius, Róbert Bárány, Cesare Lombroso, Georgius Agricola, and Cyril of Alexandria.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1914, Alan Hodgkin ranks 6. Before him are Yuri Andropov, Louis de Funès, Raymond Davis Jr., Hedy Lamarr, and Tove Jansson. After him are Thor Heyerdahl, Mohammed Zahir Shah, Tyrone Power, Tenzing Norgay, Marguerite Duras, and Julio Cortázar. Among people deceased in 1998, Alan Hodgkin ranks 5. Before him are Pol Pot, Akira Kurosawa, Frank Sinatra, and Halldór Laxness. After him are Jean Marais, Allan MacLeod Cormack, Vasily Arkhipov, Todor Zhivkov, Ernst Jünger, Vladimir Prelog, and Carlos Castaneda.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Alan Hodgkin ranks 187 out of 8,785. Before him are Henry Purcell (1659), Betty Williams (1943), Elton John (1947), Robert Clive (1725), Bon Scott (1946), and Terry Pratchett (1948). After him are Alexander R. Todd (1907), George Harrison (1943), Charles Glover Barkla (1877), William of Ockham (1285), Ernest Augustus, King of Hanover (1771), and Maggie Smith (1934).

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Among PHYSICIANS In United Kingdom

Among physicians born in United Kingdom, Alan Hodgkin ranks 5. Before him are Joseph Lister (1827), Edward Jenner (1749), Edgar Adrian (1889), and William Harvey (1578). After him are John Snow (1813), James Black (1924), Niels Kaj Jerne (1911), James Parkinson (1755), Elizabeth Blackwell (1821), Robert Knox (1791), and Hans Sloane (1660).

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