Signup Sign in Andrew Huxley ... Andrew Huxley Sir Andrew Fielding Huxley, OM, FRS (born 22 November 1917, Hampstead, London) is an English physiologist and biophysicist, who won the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his experimental and mathematical work with Sir Alan Lloyd Hodgkin on the basis of nerve action potentials, the electrical impulses that enable the activity of an organism to be coordinated by a central nervous system. Hodgkin and Huxley shared the prize that year with John Carew Eccles, who was cited for research on synapses. Hodgkin and Huxley's findings led the pair to hypothesize the existence of ion channels, which were isolated only decades later. Together with the Swiss physiologist Robert Stämpfli he evidenced the existence of saltatory conduction in myelinated nerve fibres. About Andrew Huxley Birth Date: Name: Andrew Huxley Awards: 1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Birthplace: Hampstead, London, England Known for: nerve action potentials Field: physiologist and biophysicist Nationality: British Name: Sir Andrew Huxley Videos Religion, Law and Tradition: Comparative Studies in Religious Law | |
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