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Sir Andrew Fielding Huxley OM FRS HonFREng (22 November 1917 – 30 May 2012) was an English physiologist and biophysicist. [1] [2] He was born into the prominent Huxley family. After leaving Westminster School in central London, he went to Trinity College, Cambridge, on a scholarship, after which he joined Alan Hodgkin to study nerve impulses.
Biographical. A ndrew Fielding Huxley was born in Hampstead, London, on 22nd November 1917. His father, Leonard Huxley, who was a son of the nineteenth – century scientist and writer Thomas Huxley, was for a time a classics master at Charterhouse School and later took up a literary career, writing a number of biographies and being editor of ...
6 days ago · Sir Andrew Fielding Huxley (born November 22, 1917, Hampstead, London, England—died May 30, 2012, Cambridge) was an English physiologist, cowinner (with Sir Alan Hodgkin and Sir John Carew Eccles) of the 1963 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. His researches centred on nerve and muscle fibres and dealt particularly with the chemical ...
Jun 5, 2012 · Andrew Fielding Huxley was born in London on Nov. 22, 1917, the son of Leonard Huxley, a writer, and the former Rosalind Bruce. His grandfather Thomas Huxley was a noted 19th-century biologist and ...
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Jun 27, 2012 · Andrew Huxley obtained his undergraduate degree in physiology from the University of Cambridge, UK, in 1938. His research was interrupted by the Second World War, during which he applied himself ...
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May 31, 2012 · Anthony Tucker. Thu 31 May 2012 13.05 EDT. Sir Andrew Huxley, who has died aged 94, was one of the great scientists and university administrators of our time – a Nobel laureate, a master of ...
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Sep 12, 2018 · Background. Andrew Huxley came from an illustrious family. His paternal grandfather was Thomas Henry Huxley FRS (usually known as ‘TH’) (1825–1895), the self-styled ‘Darwin's bulldog’, who was elected to the Royal Society in 1851 at the age of 26 and later became President of the Royal Society in 1883.
