Hodgkin, Alan Lloyd

British physiologist and biophysicist Sir Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, OM, KBE, PRS (1914–98) shared the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Sir Andrew Fielding Huxley (1917–2012) and John Eccles (1903–97) for his research on the ionic mechanisms responsible for excitation and conduction in nerve axons. Hodgkin and Huxley's work led to the subsequent elucidation by others of the molecular mechanisms or nerve conduction, including the existence and operation of ion channels, which followed improvements in electronic techniques and the development of molecular genetics.