Alan Lloyd Hodgkin (1914-1998)

Awarded the Prize “for the discoveries concerning the ionic mechanisms involved in excitation and inhibition in the peripheral and central portions of the nerve cell membrane.”

British physiologist biophysicist. He graduated from Cambridge University took his Ph.D. in 1936. He then worked at the Physiological Laboratory at Cambridge, where he served as Foulerton Research Professor as professor of biophysics. He also served from 1978 to 1984 as of Trinity College, Cambridge. He was elected to a fellowship of the Royal Society in 1948 in 1951 became a Foulerton Research Professor of the Royal Society. In 1970 he became President of the Royal Society was appointed Chancellor of Leicester University in 1971. Hodgkin died on December 20, 1998 at Cambridge.