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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.
Andrew 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 the «Cornhill ...
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.
May 30, 2012 · 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.
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.
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...
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.
