Andrew Huxley(1917)

Medicine

Sir Andrew Fielding Huxley was an English physiologist and biophysicist. He was born into the prominent Huxley family. After leaving Westminster School in central London, he went to Trinity College, Cambridge, on a scholarship, after which he joined Alan Hodgkin to study nerve impulses.

United Kingdom
3
Major Awards
57
Publications
195
Citations
7
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Awards & Recognition

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

for their discoveries concerning the ionic mechanisms involved in excitation and inhibition in the peripheral and central portions of the nerve cell membrane

University College London
1963

Education

Imperial College School of Medicine
Trinity College
Westminster School
University College School

Positions & Roles

President of the Royal Society

Academy Memberships

National Academy of Sciences (US)American Academy of Arts and SciencesPontifical Academy of Sciences

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