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Sir Andrew Fielding Huxley OM FRS HonFREng (22 November 1917 – 30 May 2012) was an English physiologist and biophysicist. 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.
Jun 5, 2012 · Sir Andrew Huxley, a British scientist from an illustrious family whose boyhood mechanical skills led to a career in physiology — “the mechanical engineering of living things,” he called it —...
- Denise Gellene
Sir Andrew Fielding Huxley 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 phenomena involved in the transmission of.
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May 31, 2012 · 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 Trinity College ...
Jun 27, 2012 · Andrew Fielding Huxley made three crucial discoveries in physiology and biophysics. For establishing how ions carry electrical signals in nerves, he shared the Nobel prize with Alan Hodgkin and...
- Yale E. Goldman, Clara Franzini-Armstrong, Clay M. Armstrong
- 2012
Sir Andrew Huxley, ‘the most eminent physiologist of a generation’, passed away in May this year. We asked some Members who knew him to share some of their memories of the man who unravelled the propagation of the action potential and unveiled the sliding filament mechanism in striated muscle.
Jun 2, 2012 · Andrew Huxley, a distinguished British physiologist and half-brother of "Brave New World" author Aldous Huxley, died May 30 at age 94.
