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Sir Andrew Huxley

Huxley in 1963
BornAndrew Fielding Huxley
22 November 1917(1917-11-22)
Hampstead, Lunnon, Ingland
Dee'd30 Mey 2012(2012-05-30) (aged 94)
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, Ingland
ResidenceGrantchester, Cambridge, Ingland
NaitionalityInglis
CitizenshipBreetish
Alma materVarsity o Cambridge
Kent forNerve action potentials, muscle contraction
Hauf-marrae(s)J. Richenda G. Pease
(1947–2003)
Bairns1 son an 5 dochters
Awairds
Scientific career
FieldsPhysiology an biophysics
Institutions

Sir Andrew Fielding Huxley OM PRS (22 November 1917 – 30 Mey 2012) wis an Inglis physiologist an biophysicist.[1][2]

References

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  1. Huxley, Andrew F. (1996). "Andrew F. Huxley". In Squire, Larry R. (ed.). The History of Neuroscience in Autobiography. Washington DC: Society for Neuroscience. pp. 283–318. ISBN 978-0-12-660246-3.
  2. Goldman, Yale E.; Franzini-Armstrong, Clara; Armstrong, Clay M. (2012). "Andrew Fielding Huxley (1917–2012)". Nature. 486 (7404): 474. Bibcode:2012Natur.486..474G. doi:10.1038/486474a.