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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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  • first director of UNESCO) and the Nobel laureate physiologist Andrew Huxley. Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–1895) was an English biologist known as "Darwin's Bulldog"...
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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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    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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  • Aldous Huxley Andrew Huxley (1917–2012), British biologist, brother of Aldous Huxley Anthony Huxley (1920–1992), British botanist, son of Julian Huxley Francis...
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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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    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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    Prize-winning physiologist Andrew Huxley (1917–2012). Leonard Huxley died at his home in Hampstead on 3 May 1933. Huxley's major biographies were the...
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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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  • Matthew Huxley (19 April 1920 – 10 February 2005) was a British-American epidemiologist and anthropologist, as well as an educator and author. His work...
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  • Brave New World is a dystopian novel by English author Aldous Huxley, written in 1931 and published in 1932. Largely set in a futuristic World State, whose...
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    work uncovering ionic mechanism of action potentials, Alan Hodgkin and Andrew Huxley performed experiments on the squid giant axon, using the longfin inshore...
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  • author, son of Leonard Sir Andrew Huxley (1917–2012), British physiologist and biophysicist, son of Leonard Elspeth Huxley (1907–1997), British writer...
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    sometimes known as Hodgkin-Huxley sodium channels because they were first characterized by Alan Hodgkin and Andrew Huxley in their Nobel Prize-winning...
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    discovering how, in capillaries, blood flow is regulated. In 1954, Andrew Huxley and Hugh Huxley, alongside their research team, discovered the sliding filaments...
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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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  • Nobel laureates: Edgar Adrian (Nobel Prize for Physiology in 1932), Sir Andrew Huxley (likewise in 1963) and Sir Richard Stone (Nobel Prize in Economics in...
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    themselves, the action potential, in the 1950s (Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, Andrew Huxley and John Eccles). It was in the 1960s that we became aware of how basic...
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    identify and characterize the axonal initial segment. Alan Hodgkin and Andrew Huxley also employed the squid giant axon (1939) and by 1952 they had obtained...
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    Physiology or Medicine for his work on the synapse. He shared the prize with Andrew Huxley and Alan Lloyd Hodgkin. Eccles was born in Melbourne, Australia. He...
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    Hans D. Jensen Karl Ziegler; Giulio Natta John Eccles; Alan Hodgkin; Andrew Huxley Giorgos Seferis International Committee of the Red Cross; League of...
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  • Butler of Saffron Walden 1965 1978 Sir Alan Lloyd Hodgkin 1978 1984 Sir Andrew Huxley 1984 1990 Sir Michael Atiyah 1990 1997 Amartya Sen 1998 2004 The Lord...
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  • Island is a 1962 utopian manifesto and novel by English writer Aldous Huxley, the author's final work before his death in 1963. Although it has a plot...
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    niece, Ouida Branch, who married David Bruce Huxley, brother of Julian Huxley, Aldous Huxley, and Andrew Huxley. Bergere died about two weeks shy of her 88th...
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    England he also worked with the 1963 Nobel prize winners Alan Hodgkin and Andrew Huxley. Katz was made a professor at UCL in 1952 and head of the Biophysics...
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    classical physiology laureates were John Eccles, Alan Hodgkin, and Andrew Huxley in 1963 for their findings regarding "unitary electrical events in the...
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    physiologists Charles Sherrington, Edgar Adrian, Alan Hodgkin, and Andrew Huxley. Charles Sherrington, who was born in Great Britain in 1857, is famous...
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  • filament theory of muscle contraction. He and Andrew Huxley, complimenting the independent works of Hugh Huxley and Jean Hanson, revealed that muscle contraction...
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  • George Porter, Chemistry, 1967 Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, Chemistry, 1964 Andrew Huxley, Physiology or Medicine, 1963 Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, Physiology or Medicine...
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