The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1963

Sir John Carew Eccles

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Prize share: 1/3

Alan Lloyd Hodgkin

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Prize share: 1/3

Andrew Fielding Huxley

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Prize share: 1/3

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1963 was awarded jointly to Sir John Carew Eccles, Alan Lloyd Hodgkin and Andrew Fielding Huxley "for their discoveries concerning the ionic mechanisms involved in excitation and inhibition in the peripheral and central portions of the nerve cell membrane"

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