Portrait of Alan Lloyd Hodgkin
Date
1950s
Sitter
Alan Lloyd Hodgkin (1914 - 1998, British) , Physiologist
Creator
Walter Stoneman (1876 - 1958, British) , Photographer
Creator - Organisation
J. Russell & Sons, Photographer
Object type
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Dimensions
height (print): 140mm
width (print): 100mm
width (print): 100mm
Subject
Description
Seated portrait of Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, looking right of the camera as viewed, dressed in a grey suit, a black tie and a white shirt.
Sir Alan Lloyd Hodgkin (1914-1998), British physiologist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1948 and served as its President between 1970-1975. He was awarded the Society’s Royal Medal, 1958, Copley Medal, 1965, and was joint recipient of the Nobel Prize (Physiology or Medicine) with Sir John Carew Eccles (1903-1997) and Andrew Fielding Huxley (1917-2012) in 1963 for ‘their discoveries concerning the ionic mechanisms involved in excitation and inhibition in the peripheral and central portions of the nerve cell membrane.’
Sir Alan Lloyd Hodgkin (1914-1998), British physiologist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1948 and served as its President between 1970-1975. He was awarded the Society’s Royal Medal, 1958, Copley Medal, 1965, and was joint recipient of the Nobel Prize (Physiology or Medicine) with Sir John Carew Eccles (1903-1997) and Andrew Fielding Huxley (1917-2012) in 1963 for ‘their discoveries concerning the ionic mechanisms involved in excitation and inhibition in the peripheral and central portions of the nerve cell membrane.’
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