Alan Hodgkin & Andrew Huxley
1914 – 1998 · United Kingdom · Medicine, Biology
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1963
Explained the nerve impulse in mathematical terms.
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- Santiago Ramón y Cajal
1852 – 1934 · Medicine, Biology
The neuron doctrine is the anatomy their membrane equations gave a physiology.
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