For this work, Hodgkin and Huxley were awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology in 1963 (shared with John Eccles). The ion channels whose existence Hodgkin and Huxley inferred have now ...

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 ...