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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1963

"for their discoveries concerning the ionic mechanisms involved in excitation and inhibition in the peripheral and central portions of the nerve cell membrane"
Sir John Carew Eccles Alan Lloyd Hodgkin Andrew Fielding Huxley
Sir John Carew Eccles Alan Lloyd Hodgkin Andrew Fielding Huxley
third 1/3 of the prize third 1/3 of the prize third 1/3 of the prize
Australia United Kingdom United Kingdom
University College
London, United Kingdom		 University of Cambridge
Cambridge, United Kingdom		 University College
London, United Kingdom
b. 1903
d. 1997		 b. 1914
d. 1998		 b. 1917
 
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