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  Sir Andrew Fielding Huxley | Science and Its Times: 1950-Present
Sir Andrew Fielding Huxley received the Nobel Prize in medicine for his work on the chemical properties of nerve and muscle impulses.
Andrew Huxley was born in London on November 27, 1917.
Andrew came from a long lineage of scientists and writers.
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 Andrew F. Huxley - Biography
Andrew Fielding Huxley was born in Hampstead, London, on 22nd November 1917.
Huxley found physiology interesting, partly for its subject matter and partly through contact with Adrian, Roughton, Rushton, Hodgkin and the late G. Millikan (all Fellows of Trinity) and others in the department, and he decided to specialise in it.
In 1947 Andrew Huxley married Jocelyn Richenda Gammell Pease, daughter of M. Pease, a geneticist, and the Hon.
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 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Andrew Huxley
Hodgkin and Huxley shared the prize that year with John Carew Eccles, who was cited for research on synapses.
Huxley is a son of the writer and editor Leonard Huxley by his second wife Rosalind Bruce, and hence half-brother of the writer Aldous Huxley and fellow biologist Julian Huxley and grandson of the biologist T.
Huxley was elected a member of the Royal Society of London on 17 March 1955.
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 Andrew Fielding Huxley Biography | World of Biology
Sir Andrew Fielding Huxley shared the 1963 Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine with colleague Alan Lloyd Hodgkin for research which unlocked the secret of excitation and inhibition in nerve cells.
Andrew, the youngest of their two sons, is half- brother to biologist Sir Julian Huxley and writer Aldous Huxley from his father's first marriage.
Huxley married Jocelyn Richenda Gammell Pease, daughter of the Honorable H.B. Pease and M.S. Pease, a geneticist.
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 Leonard Huxley
Leonard Huxley (died 1933) was a British writer and editor.
Their children were/included the biologist Sir Julian Sorell Huxley and the writer Aldous Leonard Huxley.
The younger of these was the physiologist Andrew Fielding Huxley.
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 Huxley, Andrew Fielding - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Huxley, Andrew Fielding 1917-, British research scientist, educated at University College, London.
He is the half brother of Sir Julian Huxley and Aldous Huxley.
He shared the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with A. Hodgkin and Sir John Carew Eccles for analysis of the electrical and chemical events in nerve cell discharge.
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 Huxley Andrew Fielding - Search Results - MSN Encarta   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Huxley, Andrew Fielding (1917- ), British biophysicist and Nobel laureate.
The grandson of Thomas Huxley and half-brother of Aldous and Julian,...
Another important area of biophysics has been the study of information transmission, in the form of impulses, in the nerve cells of organisms.
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 Learn more about Andrew Huxley in the online encyclopedia.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Andrew Fielding Huxley (born 1917) is a British physiologist and biophysicist, who won the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1963 for his work with Alan Hodgkin on the basis of action potentials in nerves, the electrical impulses that enable the activity of an organism to be coordinated by a central nervous system.
The experiments took place at the University of Cambridge beginning in the 1930s and continuing into the 1940s, after interuption by World War II.
Huxley was a son of the writer and editor Leonard Huxley by his second wife Rosalind Bruce, and hence a grandson of the biologist T.
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 huxley - Definition, Synonyms, and Reference from OnPedia.com
Huxley - English physiologist who, with Alan Hodgkin, discovered the role of potassium and sodium ions in the transmission of the nerve impulse (born in 1917)
Huxley - English writer; grandson of Thomas Huxley who is remembered mainly for his depiction of a scientifically controlled utopia (1894-1963)
Huxley - English biologist and a leading exponent of Darwin's theory of evolution (1825-1895)
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 Huxley Family Crest
The place-name Huxley is said to derive from the Old English personal name Hucc and the word leah, which means wood, or clearing.
Some of the first settlers of this family name or some of its variants were: Thomas Huxley arrived in New York in 1880; Leversedge Huxley arrived in Nevis in 1670; Mary Huxley and her husband arrived in New England in 1753.
In the Huxley coat of arms as in all coat of arms the crest is only one element of the full armorial achievement.
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 Huxley Sir Andrew Fielding
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In 1963, Alan Lloyd Hodgkin and Andrew Fielding Huxley won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their development of the mathematical model of the giant squid axon.
The key to their work was in using techniques from statistical mechanics to model the movement of the ion populations.
Later on, Fitzhugh and Nagumo simplified Hodgkin and Huxley's equations by removing some of the physical relevance of the model.
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Andrew Nicoll biography and filmography of Gattaca's director.
Thomas Henry Huxley: a good introduction to Aldous's grandfather, the influential Victorian biologist.
And here are Aldous's brother, Sir Julian Huxley, another well-known biologist ; and their half-brother, Andrew Fielding Huxley, who won the Nobel prize for Physiology or Medicine in1963.
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 Synonyms of huxley — Infoplease.com
Huxley, Aldous Huxley, Aldous Leonard Huxley, writer, author
usage: English writer; grandson of Thomas Huxley who is remembered mainly for his depiction of a scientifically controlled utopia (1894-1963)
Huxley, Thomas Huxley, Thomas Henry Huxley, biologist, life scientist
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 Sir Andrew F Huxley
> Honorary Graduates > 1988 > Andrew Huxley
Sir Andrew Fielding Huxley was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1955 and served as President from 1980 to 1985.
He was knighted in 1974 and received the Order of Merit in 1983.
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 THE GOLDMAN PAGE
Sir Bernard Katz (1911-2003); Sir Alan Lloyd Hodgkin (1914-1998); Sir Andrew Fielding Huxley (1917-still teaching physiology at 88)
By the way, Hodgkin and Huxley were the ones who discovered ion channels.
The Goldman equation, also known as the "Hodgkin-Huxley-Katz equation" was developed by incorporating discoveries of the 3 nobel laureates shown above with the Nernst equation.
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 Sir Andrew Fielding Huxley Winner of the 1963 Nobel Prize in Medicine
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Andrew Huxley biography from Encyclopedia Britannica (submitted by www.britannica.com)
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 Andrew Huxley information - Search.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Hodgkin and Huxley's findings led the pair to hypothesize the existence of ion channels, which were confirmed only decades later.
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 Andrew Fielding Huxley — FactMonster.com
Huxley, Andrew Fielding, 1917–, British research scientist, educated at University College, London.
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