| Authorised form of name | Hodgkin; Sir; Alan Lloyd (1914 - 1998); physiologist |
| Dates | 1914 - 1998 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Banbury, Oxfordshire, England |
| Date of birth | 05/02/1914 |
| Date of death | 20/12/1998 |
| Activity | Education:
Downs School, Colwall, Herefordshire, Gresham's, Holt and Trinity. Scholarship to Trinity College Cambridge to study for the Natural Sciences Tripos (1932)
Career:
John Humphrey Plummer Professor of Biophysics, University of Cambridge (1970-1981); Fellow of Trinity College Cambridge; Master of Trinity from 1978. An internationally renowned neurophysiologist.
Medals and prizes:
Nobel Prize (Physiology or Medicine) 1963
Honours:
KBE 1972; OM 1973 |
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 18/03/1948 |
| Age at election | 34 |
| RSActivity | Royal Society roles:
Council: 1958-1960, 1970-1975; PRS 1970-1975
Medals and prizes:
Royal Medal 1958; Copley Medal 1965
Lectures:
Croonian 1957; Tercentenary 1960 |
| Relationships | Great Grandfather was Luke Howard, meteorologist (FRS 1821); great uncle was Thomas Hodgkin, physician and anatomist who gave his name to Hodgkin's disease. |
| Source | Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 2000 vol 46 pp 219-241, plate, by Sir Andrew Huxley
References:
Sir Andrew Huxley, 'Living With Electrical Impulses', review of Alan Hodgkin, Chance and Design. Reminiscences of Science in Peace and War in NR 1993 vol 47 pp 133-139, plate
NCUACS 'Catalogue of the papers and correspondence of Sir Alan Lloyd Hodgkin OM FRS' 3 volumes, 2005. Papers deposited in The Library, Trinity College Cambridge.
N Calver and M Parker ' The logic of scientific Unity? Medawar, the Royal Society and the Rothschild controversy 1971-2.' In Notes and Records, Vol 70, Issue 1, March 2016 pp 83-100 |
| Code | NA3688 |
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| IM/002155 | Hodgkin, Sir Alan Lloyd | nd |
| GLB/65/108/3 | A L Hodgkin, Physiological Laboratory, Cambridge to Brown | 20 June 1966 |
| HWT/32/1 | Agenda and papers for first meeting of Committee, 8 June 1971 | 1971 |
| GLB/65/47/98 | Alan Hodgkin, Physiological Laboratory, Cambridge to Brown | 21 May 1962 |
| GLB/18/4 | Letter from Alan Hodgkin to Brown | 25 April 1961 |
| HWT/32/2 | Letter from President of the Royal Society (Alan Lloyd Hodgkin) to members of Committee enclosing 'preliminary draft of a memorandum which might form the basis of our reply to Lord Rothschild' | 16 June 1971 |
| GLB/18/12 | Brown to Alan Hodgkin, Physiological Laboratory, Cambridge | 4 May 1962 |
| GLB/65/47/99 | Alan Hodgkin, Physiological Laboratory, Cambridge to D C Martin | 1 August 1962 |
| EC/1948/10 | Hodgkin, Sir Alan Lloyd: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| GLB/65/47/102 | Brown to Alan Hodgkin, Physiological Laboratory, Cambridge | 4 May 1964 |
| GLB/65/47/103 | Mrs Albert D Lasker, Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation, New York to Hodgkin | 28 February 1966 |
| GLB/65/47/101 | Brown to Alan Hodgkin, Physiological Laboratory, Cambridge | 23 May 1963 |
| GLB/65/47/104 | Hodgkin to Mrs Albert D Lasker, Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation, New York | 31 March 1966 |
| GLB/65/47/100 | Alan Hodgkin, Physiological Laboratory, Cambridge to Brown | 1 August 1962 |
| GLB/65/47/97 | Copy of a letter from Alan Hodgkin to Charles Phillips | 10 April 1962 |
| GLB/65/47/107 | Alan Hodgkin, Physiological Laboratory, Cambridge to Brown | 30 April 1969 |
| GLB/19/1/67 | Alan Hodgkin, Physiological Laboratory, Cambridge to Brown | 5 February 1960 |
| GLB/65/57/18 | A L Hodgkin, Physiological Laboratory, Cambridge to Brown | 22 September 1966 |
| HWT/23/1/5 | Reports by Thompson and Alan Hodgkin on visit to Japan | April 1970 |
| IM/001639 | Hill, Archibald Vivian and Hodgkin, Sir Alan Lloyd | 1935 |
| HWT/26/2 | Programmes, invitation cards, list of Indian Fellows of the Royal Society, reports of proceedings and speeches of Indian President and President of the Royal Society, Sir Alan Lloyd Hodgkin | 1971 |
| HWT/32/4 | Copy of letter from Lord Rothschild to President of the Royal Society enclosing 'Comments on the Royal Society's memorandum to the Central Policy Review Staff' | July - September 1971 |
| HWT/23/4 | Correspondence and papers regarding election of Emperor Hirohito of Japan as a Fellow of the Royal Society | April - August 1971 |
| HWT/24/2/2 | Correspondence and papers regarding Royal Society policy subsequent to the Russian invasion of Czechoslovakia | August 1968 - December 1969 |
| IM/002153 | Hodgkin, Sir Alan Lloyd | nd |
| IM/002156 | Hodgkin, Sir Alan Lloyd | nd |
| IM/002154 | Hodgkin, Sir Alan Lloyd and Keynes, Richard Darwin | April 1976 |
| IM/002152 | Hodgkin, Sir Alan Lloyd | nd |
| IM/002477 | Group photograph | 1973 |
| IM/GA/AR/7183 | Hodgkin, Sir Alan Lloyd | nd |
| IM/GA/WS/3095 | Hodgkin, Sir Alan Lloyd | nd |
| IM/002151 | Hodgkin, Sir Alan Lloyd | nd |
| RR/76/91 | Referee's report by Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, on a paper 'Early changes in degenerating mammalian nerves' by G Causey and Elizabeth Palmer | 18 January 1952 |
| RR/69/170 | Referee's report by Charles Galton Darwin, on a paper 'The electrical constants of a crustacean nerve fibre' by Alan Lloyd Hodgkin and William Albert Hugh Rushton | 1945 |
| MOB/056 | Apothecaries' scales | c.1820-1840 |
| HWT/21/3/1 | Invitations, arrangements and Thompson's manuscript notes | August - December 1970 |
| P/0068 | Portrait of Hodgkin, Sir Alan | 1975 |
| RR/69/171 | Referee's report by Archibald Vivian Hill, on a paper 'The electrical constants of a crustacean nerve fibre' by Alan Lloyd Hodgkin and William Albert Hugh Rushton | 1945 |
| RR/80/6 | Letter from Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, on a paper 'Fatigue and adaptation of the cupular mechanism of the human horizontal semicircular canal: an experimental investigation' by Charles Skinner Hallpike and J D Hood, to D C Martin, assistant secretary of the Royal Society | 9 February 1953 |
| RR/80/8 | Letter from Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, on a paper 'Fatigue and adaptation of the cupular mechanism of the human horizontal semicircular canal: an experimental investigation' by Charles Skinner Hallpike and J D Hood, to D C Martin, assistant secretary of the Royal Society | 25 March 1953 |
| RR/78/57 | Letter from D C Martin, on a paper 'Synaptic transmission. An analysis of the electrical activity of the lateral geniculate nucleus in the cat following optic nerve stimulation' by Peter Orlebar Bishop, to Alan Lloyd Hodgkin | 16 January 1953 |
| RR/78/58 | Letter from Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, on a paper 'Synaptic transmission. An analysis of the electrical activity of the lateral geniculate nucleus in the cat following optic nerve stimulation' by Peter Orlebar Bishop, to D C Martin | 22 January 1953 |
| RR/78/72 | Referee's report by Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, on a paper 'The speed of the slow component of ocular nystagmus induced by angular acceleration of the head: its experimental determination and application to the physical theory of the cupular mechanism' by Charles Skinner Hallpike and J D Hood | 16 November 1952 |
| RR/78/77 | Letter from Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, on a paper 'The role of specialized nerve terminals in cutaneous sensibility' by E Hagen, H Knoche, D C Sinclair and G Weddell, to D C Martin | 14 December 1952 |
| RR/78/78 | Referee's report by Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, on a paper 'The role of specialized nerve terminals in cutaneous sensibility' by E Hagen, H Knoche, D C Sinclair and G Weddell | 14 December 1952 |
| RR/80/7 | Referee's report by Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, on a paper 'Fatigue and adaptation of the cupular mechanism of the human horizontal semicircular canal: an experimental investigation' by Charles Skinner Hallpike and J D Hood | 11 February 1953 |
| RR/80/44 | Referee's report by Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, on a paper 'Membrane behaviour in Nitella' by M C Bennett and Eric Keightley Rideal | 20 November 1953 |
| RR/80/46 | Letter from Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, on a paper 'Membrane behaviour in Nitella' by M C Bennett and Eric Keightley Rideal, to Sir Edward [Salisbury], secretary of the Royal Society | 10 February 1954 |
| RR/80/48 | Letter from Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, on a paper 'Membrane behaviour in Nitella' by M C Bennett and Eric Keightley Rideal, to Sir Edward [Salisbury] | 9 April 1954 |