The discovery of the action potential

Action Potentials Recorded from Inside a Nerve Fibre

A. L. Hodgkin, A. F. Huxley · Nature · 1939 · 662 citations

Life Sciences, Biophysics, Neuroscience +12

Membrane resting and action potentials from the squid giant axon

Howard J. Curtis, Kenneth S. Cole · Journal of Cellular and Comparative Physiology · 1942 · 268 citations

Natural Sciences, Biophysics, Neuroscience +16

The Role of the Voltaic Pile in the Galvani-Volta Controversy Concerning Animal <i>vs</i>. Metallic Electricity

Alexander Mauro · Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences · 1969 · 23 citations

Natural Sciences, Animal Sciences, Electromagnetics +4

Julius Bernstein, Ludimar Hermann and the discovery of the overshoot of the axon spike.

Harry Grundfest · PubMed · 1965 · 12 citations

Life Sciences, Neurobiology, Neuroscience +6