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The British physiologists Andrew F. Huxley (1917-2012) and Alan L. Hodgkin (1914-1998) and the Australian physiologist John C. Eccles (1903-1997) shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in _____ for the discovery of the chemical processes responsible for the passage of impulses along individual nerve fibers (via action potential).