Harold Lecar (18 October 1935 – 4 February 2014) was an American professor of biophysics and neurobiology at the University of California Berkeley.
The Morris–Lecar experiments relied on the voltage clamp method established by Keynes et al.
[2] Large specimens of the barnacle Balanus nubilus (Pacific Bio-Marine Laboratories Inc., Venice, California) were used.
The barnacle was sawed into lateral halves, and the depressor scutorum rostralis muscles were carefully exposed.
Experiments were carried out at room temperature of 22 C.[1] Among the principal assumptions are these: The Morris–Lecar model is a two-dimensional system of nonlinear differential equations.