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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...
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  • great-granddaughter of Thomas Huxley). The younger son (1917–2012) was the Nobel Prize winner, physiologist Andrew Fielding Huxley. A Plaque was erected in...
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    teams, one consisting of Andrew Huxley and Rolf Niedergerke from the University of Cambridge, and the other consisting of Hugh Huxley and Jean Hanson from...
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    Aldous Leonard Huxley (/ˈɔːldəs/ AWL-dəs; 26 July 1894 – 22 November 1963) was an English writer and philosopher. His bibliography spans nearly 50 books...
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    during the 20th century. For example, in 1952, Alan Lloyd Hodgkin and Andrew Huxley presented a mathematical model for the transmission of electrical signals...
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    biophysicist who shared the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Andrew Huxley and John Eccles. Hodgkin was born in Banbury, Oxfordshire, on 5 February...
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  • 1957–1961 John Zachary Young 1961–1967 Richard John Harrison 1967–1973 Andrew Fielding Huxley 1973–1979 Max Ferdinand Perutz 1979–1985 David Chilton Phillips...
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    Association at the time. The seminal work by Alan Lloyd Hodgkin and Andrew Fielding Huxley on the ionic basis of nerve conduction resumed there in June 1947...
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  • Hodgkin-Huxley models. This goes back to at least the landmark paper published by Nobel prize winners Alan Lloyd Hodgkin and Andrew Fielding Huxley around...
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  • (born 1934) is an American physiologist and a former student of Andrew Fielding Huxley. Armstrong received his MD from Washington University School of...
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    membrane potential might reach +40 mV. In 1963, Alan Lloyd Hodgkin and Andrew Fielding Huxley won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their contribution...
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    Fleming, Sir Ernst Boris Chain, Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins, Sir Andrew Fielding Huxley, Rodney Robert Porter, (physics) Abdus Salam, Sir George Paget Thomson...
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  • Goldman, Y. E.; Franzini-Armstrong, C.; Armstrong, C. M. (2012). "Andrew Fielding Huxley (1917–2012)". Nature. 486 (7404): 474. Bibcode:2012Natur.486..474G...
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    Thomas Henry Huxley PC FRS HonFRSE FLS (4 May 1825 – 29 June 1895) was an English biologist and anthropologist who specialized in comparative anatomy....
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    prior to 1955, was carried out primarily by Alan Lloyd Hodgkin and Andrew Fielding Huxley, who were, along John Carew Eccles, awarded the 1963 Nobel Prize...
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    age as Julian, and he later acquired half-brothers Andrew Huxley and David Huxley. In 1911, Huxley became informally engaged to Kathleen Fordham, whom...
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    X-ray crystallography and (new at the time) electronic computers Andrew Fielding Huxley (1917–2012): Medicine 1963 for explaining how nerves use electricity...
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    from Robin Perutz and Vivien Perutz to Martin Packer, August 2012 Brown, Andrew, 2005. J. D. Bernal: The Sage of Science. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-920565-5...
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    muscle cells. It is a continuous-time dynamical system. Alan Hodgkin and Andrew Huxley described the model in 1952 to explain the ionic mechanisms underlying...
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  • Giulio Natta Medicine – Sir John Carew Eccles, Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, Andrew Fielding Huxley January 4 – May-Britt Moser, Norwegian neuroscientist, winner of...
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    annually by the Swedish Karolinska Institute to scientists in the various fields of physiology or medicine. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established...
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    morphogenesis 1968 Max Ferdinand Perutz, The haemoglobin molecule 1967 Andrew Fielding Huxley, The activation of striated muscle and its mechanical response....
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    Yale E.; Franzini-Armstrong, Clara; Armstrong, Clay M. (2012). "Andrew Fielding Huxley (1917–2012)". Nature. 486 (7404): 474. Bibcode:2012Natur.486..474G...
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    (N&W) Railway. In Stockholm, two Britons (Alan Lloyd Hodgkin and Andrew Fielding Huxley) and an Australian (John Carew Eccles) were announced as winners...
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  • London. 17 October – Two British scientists (Alan Lloyd Hodgkin and Andrew Fielding Huxley) and an Australian (John Carew Eccles) are announced in Stockholm...
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    Medicine: Francis Harry Compton Crick • 1963 Physiology or Medicine: Andrew Fielding Huxley • 1970 Physiology or Medicine: Bernard Katz • 1970 Physiology or...
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  • Year Name Lecture Notes 1982 Andrew Fielding Huxley Discovery: accident of design? — 1983 Frank John Fenner Biological control, as exemplified by smallpox...
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    Prior's Field is an independent girls' boarding and day school in Guildford, Surrey in the south-east of England. Founded in 1902 by Julia Huxley, it stands...
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  • Stanley Holmes, DL, Chief Executive, Merseyside County Council. Andrew Fielding Huxley, FRS, Royal Society Research Professor, University College, London...
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  • Corham Huxham 1769-03-16 fl 1769 Hugh Esmor Huxley 1960-03-24 22 February 1924 – 25 July 2013 Andrew Fielding Huxley 1955-03-17 22 November 1917 – 30 May 2012...
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