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 ...

The Hodgkin ... and Huxley? First, they chose the right model system. The squid axon offered technical advantages due to its size and relative simplicity, with only two types of voltage-gated ...

Specifically, he studied synaptic mechanisms in motor neurons and ion currents in snail neurons using voltage clamping ... “We believed it might be possible to prove the Hodgkin-Huxley concept by ...