id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_fvfxzg2dengtzdos4pzdu4zbma E. M. Tansey Alan Hodgkin, Chance and design: reminiscences of science in peace and war, Cambridge University Press, 1992, pp. xi, 412, illus., £40.00, $59.95 (hardback 0-521-40099-6) 1993 1 .pdf application/pdf 709 31 47 ALAN HODGKIN, Chance and design: reminiscences of science in peace and war, Cambridge of PhYsiology in which Alan Hodgkin and Andrew Huxley described the membrane currents across hypothesis of the nerve action potential that depended upon the external concentration of sodium Physiological Society in 1976, now describes some of the scientific and personal background to that After a short spell in aviation medicine, Hodgkin spent much of the war, like many other natural treated by the authorities; and Echoes of war by Sir Bernard Lovell, from whom Hodgkin learned, After the war Hodgkin returned to Cambridge, teaching and tutoring students on accelerated two-year courses, slowly re-building equipment and beginning experiments on crab nerves, recently demobbed from the Navy, he worked on a hypothesis about the role of sodium ions in the hypothesis more rigorously, and by July Hodgkin and Huxley were able to give a short paper to the available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms https://www.cambridge.org/core ./cache/work_fvfxzg2dengtzdos4pzdu4zbma.pdf ./txt/work_fvfxzg2dengtzdos4pzdu4zbma.txt