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\textit{A. Hodgkin} and \textit{A. Huxley}, in their celebrated work done in the late 1940s and early 1950s, [see J. Physiol. 116, 424-448 (1952); ibid. 447-472 (1952); ibid. 473-496 (1952); ibid. 497-506 (1952); ibid. 117, 500-544 (1952)], for which they received the Nobel prize, obtained a quantitative explanation of the process of nerve impulse propagation. A measure of the power and influence of their accomplishments is the fact that since their work, most experimental and theoretical studies of electrically excitable cells have been based on the techniques they developed. In the present paper, we will look at the work of Hodgkin and Huxley and also at some recent work which is based on their fundamental contribution. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0910.00060].