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sir alan lloyd hodgkin

 

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Noun sir alan lloyd hodgkin has 1 sense
  1. Hodgkin, Alan Hodgkin, Sir Alan Lloyd Hodgkin - English physiologist who, with Andrew Huxley, discovered the role of potassium and sodium atoms in the transmission of the nerve impulse (born in 1914)
    --1 is a kind of physiologist

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Sir Alan Lloyd Hodgkin

Definition: Sir Alan Lloyd Hodgkin was a British physiologist and biophysicist who received the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discoveries concerning the ionic mechanisms involved in excitation and inhibition in the peripheral and central portions of the nerve cell membrane.

Part of Speech: Proper noun

Sense 1: Sir Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, as a proper noun, refers to the British physiologist and biophysicist who made significant discoveries about nerve cell membrane mechanisms, leading to his Nobel Prize win.

Example Sentence: Sir Alan Lloyd Hodgkin's groundbreaking research paved the way for a greater understanding of nerve cell membrane processes.

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