The Hodgkin-Huxley (H-H) theory of the action potential, formulated 50 years ago, remains one of the great success stories in biology, and ranks among the most significant conceptual breakthroughs ...

S. Cole, who introduced him to the voltage–clamp method. In the late 1940s, Hodgkin, Andrew Huxley and Bernard Katz used this method in a brilliant series of experiments that elucidated the ...