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Noun: Alan Hodgkin
  1. English physiologist who, with Andrew Huxley, discovered the role of potassium and sodium atoms in the transmission of the nerve impulse (1914-1998)
    - Hodgkin, Sir Alan Hodgkin, Alan Lloyd Hodgkin

Type of: physiologist

Encyclopedia: Alan Hodgkin