Alan Hodgkin (1914-98): Neurophysiologist
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Alan Hodgkin was a physiologist, explaining the origin of the nerve impulse in collaboration with Andre Huxley. Together they succeeded in measuring the voltage inside a nerve cell, in 1939. Hodgkin returned to research on nerve from 1946 and built state of the art electronic equipment. He invented ways of accounting for measurements via differential equations representing separate sodium and potassium selective pathways. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, with Andrew Huxley and Jack Eccles, in 1963, and was knighted in 1972.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 1999
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An anthropologist's attic
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Pitt Rivers Museum was founded in the late 1800s by Gen Augustus H. Pitt-Rivers, who had an avid interest in the material culture of various groups around the world. The museum is full of artifacts that demonstrate how people solved similar problems in many different ways.
Publication Name: Scientific American
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8733
Year: 1996
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Blacks and liberals: the Los Angeles riots
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Liberalism fostered the growth of social discrimination in America and contributed to the decline of moral integrity among Afro-Americans. The growing rage of Afro-Americans over such inequalities was made explicit in the Los Angeles riots of 1992.
Publication Name: Current
Subject: Education
ISSN: 0011-3131
Year: 1993
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