1917 - 2012
Andrew Huxley British Scientist
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| First Name |
Andrew
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| Last Name |
Huxley
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| Birthday |
22nd November, 1917
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| Birthplace |
Hampstead, London, England, UK
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| Died |
30th May, 2012
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| Place of Death |
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England
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| Zodiac Sign |
Scorpio
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| Nationality |
British
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| Occupation |
Scientist
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Sir Andrew Fielding Huxley OM PRS (22 November 1917 – 30 May 2012) was an English physiologist and biophysicist. He was born into the prominent Huxley family. After graduating from Westminster School in Central London, from where he won a scholarship to Trinity College, Cambridge, he joined Alan Lloyd Hodgkin to study nerve impulses. Their eventual discovery of the basis for propagation of nerve impulses (called an action potential) earned them the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1963. They made their discovery from the giant axon of the Atlantic squid. Soon after the outbreak of the Second World War, Huxley was recruited by the British Anti-Aircraft Command and later transferred to the Admiralty. After the war he resumed research at The University of Cambridge, where he developed interference microscopy that would be suitable for studying muscle fibres.
