Scientists and their contributions

Question 1

Alan Hodgkin & Andrew Huxley

Answer 1

• Finales de 1940 principios de los 50’s
• Descubrieron los mecanismos iónicos que operan durante la trasnmisión del impulso nervioso y establecieron los principios básicos que regulan el disparo de un potencial de acción.
• Su trabajo experimental constituye la base de lo que hoy en día se conoce acerca de la electrofisiología de la comunicación entre neuronas y por este trabajo les fue concedido el Premio Nobel en 1963

Question 2

Charles Scott Sherrington

Answer 2

(1857-1952)

Charles Scott Sherrington is best known for providing us with the term synapse, a word we still use to describe the junction where two neurons communicate (Sherrington had originally planned to use the term syndesm to describe the functional junction between neurons, but a friend suggested synapse**, from the Greek meaning “to clasp,” since it “yields a better adjectival form.”)

While Sherrington’s work to understand synapses and neural communication was important, his studies of reflexes, proprioception, spinal nerves, muscle action, and movement were much more expansive and probably even more influential.