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== Personal life == During his stay at the Rockefeller Institute in 1937, Hodgkin got to know the American pathologist Francis Peyton Rous who was later awarded the 1966 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. When Rous invited him for dinner to his home, Hodgkin got to know Rous' daughter, Marni, who was then a student at Swarthmore College. He proposed to her before going back to England in 1938, but she rejected him. When Hodgkin briefly returned to the US in 1944 (see Wartime activities), they reunited and got married on 31 March. Their first daughter, Sarah, was born in April 1945, shortly before the Hodgkins moved back to Cambridge. They had three more children: Deborah Hodgkin (born 2 May 1947), Jonathan Hodgkin (born 24 August 1949), and Rachel Hodgkin (born June 1951). Marni became a Children's Book Editor at Macmillan Publishing Company and a successful writer of children's literature, including Young Winter's Tales and Dead Indeed. Jonathan Hodgkin became a molecular biologist at Cambridge University. Deborah Hodgkin is also a successful psychologist. Thomas Hodgkin (1798–1866), who first described Hodgkin's lymphoma, was Alan Hodgkin's great-uncle.
=== Death === Hodgkin suffered from a series of medical problems that began soon after his retirement as Master of Trinity. In 1989 he had surgery to relieve pressure on the spinal cord from one of the intervertebral discs in his neck, which left him unable to walk without support, and with progressive disablement. Hodgkin died in 1998 in Cambridge.
== See also == List of presidents of the Royal Society
== References ==
== Bibliography ==
== External links == The Master of Trinity at Trinity College, Cambridge Alan Hodgkin on Nobelprize.org including the Nobel Lecture on 11 December 1963 The Ionic Basis of Nervous Conduction Portraits of Alan Hodgkin at the National Portrait Gallery, London BBC obituary Action Potential Paper Imperial War Museum Interview