title: Hodgkin and the action potential 1935-1952.
abstract: It is naturally very gratifying that the Editors of The Journal of Physiology have decided to make available online a paper that Alan Hodgkin and I published 50 years ago (Hodgkin & Huxley, 1952). This was the final paper in the series on the voltage clamp experiments by us and Bernard Katz. In this note, I will set out the background against which this work was done.
authors.affiliation: Trinity College, Cambridge CB2 1TQ, UK.
authors.forename: A F
authors.initials: AF
authors.lastname: Huxley
mesh_terms: D000200:Action Potentials / Q000502:physiology*; D000818:Animals; D004594:Electrophysiology / Q000266:history; D004739:England; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D009431:Neural Conduction / Q000502:physiology*