A Quantitative Description of Membrane Current

Creators

• Alan Hodgkin, author
• Andrew Huxley, author

Canon Rationale

A core neuroscience and biophysics paper, included for the Hodgkin-Huxley model, membrane currents, nerve conduction, and mathematical modeling in biology.

Evidence

• citation context: Hodgkin and Huxley, 'A Quantitative Description of Membrane Current and its Application to Conduction and Excitation in Nerve,' Journal of Physiology, 1952.
• field survey: The Nobel Prize, Hodgkin and Huxley prize materials.

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