2019-12-20 Fri

Alan Lloyd Hodgkin was an English physiologist and biophysicist who received the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1963 for discovery of the Chemical process responsible for the passage of impulses along individual nerve fibers.

Alan was born on 5th February 1914 in Banbury, oxfordshire to George Hodgkin and Mary Wilson Hodgkin. After completing his education at the Down School and Gresham’s School, he ended up receiving a scholarship at Trinity College, Cambridge in Botany, Zoology and Chemistry.

Hodgkin served as a research professor for the Royal Society, professor of biophysics at Cambridge, chancellor of the University of Leicester, and master of Trinity College. He was knighted in 1972 and admitted into the Order of Merit in 1973. Hodgkin died on 20th December 1998 in Cambridge.

To honor him Niger Postal Department has issued a 100 Franc commemorative stamp in 1977.

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