Sir Alan Lloyd Hodgkin was an English physiologist and biophysicist who began his education at The Downs Malvern. Hodgkin was granted a scholarship to study botany, zoology and chemistry at Trinity College, Cambridge, but whilst there his interests shifted to physiology. After graduating from Cambridge in 1936 Hodgkin remained there as a research fellow and continued his experiments on how electrical activity is transmitted in the sciatic nerve of frogs. During WWII Hodgkin worked at the Royal Aircraft Establishment on issues in aviation medicine and later for the Telecommunications Research Establishment (TRE) on the development of centimetric radar. After the war Hodgkin returned to Cambridge and resumed his pioneering work on action potentials from inside the giant axon of the squid. Alongside his partners Hodgkin published a series of five papers on this research in The Journal of Physiology, which earned them the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1963. Hodgkin later served as the president of The Royal Society, became Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, was knighted in 1972 and admitted into the Order of Merit (OM) in 1973.