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Sir Andrew Fielding Huxley OM FRS HonFREng (22 November 1917 – 30 May 2012) was an English physiologist and biophysicist. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] 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 ...
The elder of these was David Bruce Huxley (1915–1992), whose daughter Angela Huxley married George Pember Darwin, son of the physicist Sir Charles Galton Darwin (and thus a great-grandson of Charles Darwin married a great-granddaughter of Thomas Huxley). The younger son (1917–2012) was the Nobel Prize winner, physiologist Andrew Fielding ...
After his return to Cambridge he started collaborating with Andrew Huxley who had entered Trinity as a freshman in 1935, three years after Hodgkin. [34] With a £300 equipment grant from the Rockefeller Foundation, Hodgkin managed to set up a similar physiology setup to the one he had worked with at the Rockefeller Institute.
The theory was independently introduced in 1954 by two research 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 the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. [2] [3] It was originally conceived by Hugh Huxley in 1953. Andrew Huxley and ...
The Hodgkin–Huxley model, or conductance-based model, is a mathematical model that describes how action potentials in neurons are initiated and propagated. It is a set of nonlinear differential equations that approximates the electrical engineering characteristics of excitable cells such as neurons and muscle cells .
An Update on Our Family is an American documentary series directed and produced by Rachel Mason.It explores the world of family vlogging primarily exploring the case of Myka and James Stauffer, and their adoption of a child, Huxley.
Huxley has since been rehomed and renamed by his new family. The child is no longer in the public eye. In their final YouTube post, Myka and James explained that Huxley would be living with a "new ...
Andrew Huxley [85] 1965 François Jacob [86] 2003 Paul Lauterbur [87] 1907 Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran [88] 1986 Rita Levi-Montalcini [89] 1960 Sir Peter Medawar [90] 1908 Élie Metchnikoff [91] 1965 Jacques Monod [92] 1946 Hermann Joseph Muller [93] 2001 Paul Nurse [94] 1904 Ivan Pavlov [95] 1993 Richard J. Roberts [96] 2017 Michael Rosbash ...