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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.
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1963 was awarded jointly to Sir John Carew Eccles, Alan Lloyd Hodgkin and Andrew Fielding Huxley "for their discoveries concerning the ionic mechanisms involved in excitation and inhibition in the peripheral and central portions of the nerve cell membrane"
Andrew Fielding Huxley. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1963. Born: 22 November 1917, Hampstead, United Kingdom. Died: 30 May 2012, Grantchester, United Kingdom. Affiliation at the time of the award: University College, London, United Kingdom.
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 — and...
May 26, 2024 · 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.
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1963 was awarded jointly to Sir John Carew Eccles, Alan Lloyd Hodgkin and Andrew Fielding Huxley "for their discoveries concerning the ionic mechanisms involved in excitation and inhibition in the peripheral and central portions of the nerve cell membrane". To cite this section.
Nov 22, 2023 · Andrew Fielding Huxley, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1963. The name of Andrew Huxley will be forever linked to that of Alan Hodgkin for their Nobel Prize winning work in uncovering the permeability changes that produce the action potential.
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...
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 16, 2012 · Andrew Huxley. Sir Andrew Huxley, neurophysiologist, died on May 30th, aged 94. Jun 16th 2012. EUGENICS, these days, is a dirty word. But read the name “Huxley” and it is hard to believe there...
