Hans Meves qualified in medicine from the University of Marburg (1951). He worked on the physiology of nerve fibres with Hans Lullies at Saar University and then in Kiel, with B Frankenhauser in Stockholm (1957), and with R Stampfli in Homburg (1959 and 1961-7). Between 1962 and 1965, Meves collaborated with Alan Hodgkin and others on the effects of low ionic strength on action potentials. He was appointed Professor of Physiology in Kiel (1967) but left three years later for the Marine Biological Association, eventually becoming Senior Principal Scientific Officer. His work mostly addressed the selectivity (structure) and activation/inactivation mechanisms (gating) of ion channels, with several papers appearing in The Journal of Physiology. In 1980, Meves returned to succeed R Stampfli in the Chair of Physiology at Homburg. In 1990, he retired but continued to experiment, learning the patch clamp technique to do so. He became a Member of The Physiological Society in 1965 and was a member of the Editorial Board of The Journal of Physiology from 1975 to 1984.

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