The Hodgkin-Huxley (H-H) theory of the action potential ... Moreover, their collaboration exemplified a balance between experiment and theory that has rarely been matched.

Like all good experiments, this produced further questions while also providing answers. In particular: how could the voltage actually reverse? Hodgkin and Huxley rushed off what they called 'a ...

The idea that information travels through neurons like electrical signals through a circuit is known as the Hodgkin-Huxley model. This was awarded the 1963 Nobel Prize in Medicine and created a strong ...

To Huxley’s and Hodgkin’s astonishment, when they stimulated the fibre the range of voltage readings was far higher than they had been led to expect. They repeated the experiment several times ...

Hodgkin was awarded the prize in physiology or medicine along with his colleagues Andrew Fielding Huxley and John Eccles. The laureates conducted their research on the giant axon of squid because ...

Hodgkin worked in radar research with the ... enabling him to design much of the equipment he used in his experiments. Huxley attended University College School before transferring to Westminster ...

Biologists had known since the 1771 experiments of Italian physicist ... and how it could be transmitted through cells. Huxley and Hodgkin approached the problem by studying a squid nerve cell ...