Sir Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, O.M., K.B.E. 5 February 1914 — 20 December 1998
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Alan Hodgkin was one of the leading experimental biologists of the middle years of the twentieth century. He achieved an almost complete understanding of excitation and conduction in nerve fibres at the level possible with the techniques available at that time, and for this he received a share in the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1963. This work paved the way for subsequent unravelling by others of the molecular mechanisms, which followed from improvements in electronic techniques and the growth of molecular genetics. He also made major contributions to other aspects of the physiology of nerves and muscles, and especially to the mechanism of vision. During World War II he worked first in highaltitude physiology but for most of the war he was a member of the team that developed short-wave airborne radar, a development that was crucial to many of the successes of the Royal Air Force. His career was completed by holding two of the most distinguished positions open to an academic scientist in Britain, the presidency of The Royal Society (1970-75) and the Mastership of Trinity College, Cambridge (1978-84). He died in December 1998 after a long series of illnesses.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".