Physiologist and biophysicist (1917-2012) who won the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. TLS, one page, 8.25 x 11.75, personal Trinity College letterhead, February 18, 1993. Letter to D. Dee, in part: "I have always had a mechanical mind; as a boy I played much with Meccano and made things both from wood and metal; when I was about 12 my parents gave to my brother and myself a metal-turning lathe which I still use for making parts of the equipment that I use in my scientific work. I was taught physics at school by an inspiring teacher, Dr. J. S. Rudwick, and went to Cambridge University to take a degree in Natural Sciences, expecting to specialize in physics in my final year and to make a career either in physics or in engineering. In the Cambridge course, it is necessary to take three main subjects in the first two years; I naturally took physics and chemistry and I chose physiology (about which I knew nothing) as my third on the recommendation of a friend. I found the physiology course more interesting than physics, partly because it was dealing with recent discoveries and even with matters that were still controversial, while the physics was all material that had long been cut and dried. Also, I was inspired by my teachers in Trinity College, notably William Rushton, Jack Roughton, Alan Hodgkin and Glenn Millikan (son of the famous physicist; sadly killed in a climbing accident just after the war). I therefore decided to specialise in physiology instead of physics. The immediate reason for starting research on nerve conduction, for which I received a share of the Nobel Prize in 1963, was an invitation from Hodgkin to join him in his research. I accepted, and we managed to obtain one important result during a few weeks' work before it was brought to an end by the immediate prospect of war. Hodgkin and I kept in touch during the war and began working together again in Cambridge at the beginning of 1946. This was the work that led to the Nobel Prize." In fine condition.
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