Editing History of science (section)

===Neuroscience as a distinct discipline===
The understanding of neurons and the nervous system became increasingly precise and molecular during the 20th century. For example, in 1952, [[Alan Lloyd Hodgkin]] and [[Andrew Huxley]] presented a mathematical model for transmission of electrical signals in neurons of the giant axon of a squid, which they called "[[action potentials]]", and how they are initiated and propagated, known as the [[Hodgkin–Huxley model]]. In 1961–1962, Richard FitzHugh and J. Nagumo simplified Hodgkin–Huxley, in what is called the [[FitzHugh–Nagumo model]]. In 1962, [[Bernard Katz]] modeled [[neurotransmission]] across the space between neurons known as [[synapses]]. Beginning in 1966, Eric Kandel and collaborators examined biochemical changes in neurons associated with learning and memory storage in ''[[Aplysia]]''. In 1981 Catherine Morris and Harold Lecar combined these models in the [[Morris–Lecar model]]. Such increasingly quantitative work gave rise to numerous [[biological neuron model]]s and [[models of neural computation]]. [[Neuroscience]] began to be recognized as a distinct academic discipline in its own right. [[Eric Kandel]] and collaborators have cited [[David Rioch]], [[Francis O. Schmitt]], and [[Stephen Kuffler]] as having played critical roles in establishing the field.<ref name=Rioch>{{Cite journal|last1=Cowan|first1=W.M. |last2=Harter|first2=D.H.|last3=Kandel|first3=E.R.|date=2000|title=The emergence of modern neuroscience: Some implications for neurology and psychiatry|journal=Annual Review of Neuroscience|volume=23|pages=345–346 |doi=10.1146/annurev.neuro.23.1.343|pmid=10845068}}</ref>