Identity area
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1902-2000 (Creation)
Level of description
Extent and medium
197 boxes
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
Alan Hodgkin was born on 5 February 1914, son of George Lloyd Hodgkin and his wife Mary. He attended school in Cornwall and Norfolk, winning a scholarship to Trinity College Cambridge in 1932. Although his intention was to study Zoology, he took… read more
Repository
Content and structure area
Scope and content
This sizable archive contains the following materials. Biographical and autobiographical material 1914-2000, school and college papers 1919-1936, honours and awards 1936-1987, family correspondence and papers 1902-1977, personal correspondence 1937-1981,… read more
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Not all the material in this collection may yet be available for consultation. Enquiries should be addressed in the first instance to:
The Archivist
Trinity College Library
Cambridge
Cambridge
CB2 1TQ
archives@trin.cam.ac.uk
Finding aids
This collection-level catalogue was produced by Jonathan Smith. The Hodgkin papers were catalogued by Simon Coleman, Peter Harper and Timothy E. Powell of the National Cataloguing Unit for the Archives of Contemporary Scientists, and a typescript… read more
Allied materials area
Related units of description
Hodgkin worked closely with Sir Andrew Huxley, whose (uncatalogued) papers are also at Trinity College Library.