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The zoologist is delighted by the differences between animals, whereas the physiologist would like all animals to work in fundamentally the same way.

Alan Lloyd Hodgkin

Research in neurophysiology is much more like paddling a small canoe on a mountain river. The river which is fed by many distant springs carries you along all right, though often in a peculiar direction. You have to paddle quite hard to keep afloat. And sooner or later some of your ideas are upset and are carried downstream like an upturned canoe.

Alan Lloyd Hodgkin

Alan Lloyd Hodgkin

Alan Lloyd Hodgkin

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Born: February 5, 1914

Died: December 20, 1998 (aged 84)

Bio: Sir Alan Lloyd Hodgkin was an English physiologist and biophysicist, who shared the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Andrew Huxley and John Eccles.

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