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Alan Hodgkin

1914 - 1998

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Sir Alan Lloyd Hodgkin (5 February 1914 – 20 December 1998) was an English physiologist and biophysicist who shared the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Andrew Huxley and John Eccles. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alan Hodgkin has received more than 98,398 page views. His biography is available in 56 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 57 in 2019). Alan Hodgkin is the 182nd most popular physician (down from 152nd in 2019), the 927th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 788th in 2019) and the 12th most popular British Physician.

Alan Hodgkin is most famous for his research on the ionic basis of nerve and muscle action.

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  • 60.15

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 56

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.61

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.86

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Alan Hodgkin ranks 182 out of 726. Before him are Dominique Jean Larrey, Joseph Murray, Alexander Bogdanov, Gerhard Armauer Hansen, Magnus Hirschfeld, and Bernardo Houssay. After him are August von Wassermann, Hans Sloane, Werner Haase, Giovanni Battista Morgagni, Leonid Rogozov, and Maurice Bucaille.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1914, Alan Hodgkin ranks 53. Before him are Peter Townsend, Pavle, Serbian Patriarch, Norman Borlaug, Adolfo Bioy Casares, William Westmoreland, and Robert Wise. After him are Renato Dulbecco, Shapour Bakhtiar, Akira Nozawa, James Van Allen, Francisco da Costa Gomes, and Creighton Abrams. Among people deceased in 1998, Alan Hodgkin ranks 40. Before him are Derek Barton, Nelson Goodman, Florence Griffith Joyner, Martha Gellhorn, Conrad Schumann, and Alan J. Pakula. After him are Imi Lichtenfeld, Adem Jashari, David McClelland, Kunitaka Sueoka, Maurice Bucaille, and Shoichi Nishimura.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Alan Hodgkin ranks 927 out of 8,785. Before him are David Irving (1938), Thomas of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Clarence (1388), Thomas Tallis (1502), Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey (1764), Terence Stamp (1938), and John Dryden (1631). After him are Arthur Hailey (1920), Karl Jenkins (1944), Samuel Pepys (1633), John Harvard (1607), Carol Reed (1906), and Duncan Edwards (1936).

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Among PHYSICIANS In United Kingdom

Among physicians born in United Kingdom, Alan Hodgkin ranks 12. Before him are Niels Kaj Jerne (1911), John Snow (1813), Edgar Adrian (1889), James Black (1924), John Langdon Down (1828), and Frederick Griffith (1879). After him are Hans Sloane (1660), Thomas Willis (1621), Mungo Park (1771), James Lind (1716), John Hunter (1728), and Edward Bach (1886).

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