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American Academy of Arts and Sciences (531) |
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| 45. Other Awards |
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45. Other Awards |
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Annual Review Prize Lecture (7) |
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Copley Medal (60) |
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Fellow of the Royal Society (101) |
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| complete name: |
Andrew Fielding Huxley |
| nobel prize: |
medicine |
| award year: |
1963 |
| together with: |
Alan Lloyd Hodgkin |
| together with: |
John Eccles |
| prize share: |
Prize share: 1/3 |
| rational: |
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1963 was awarded jointly to Sir John Carew Eccles, Alan Lloyd Hodgkin and Andrew Fielding Huxley "for their discoveries concerning the ionic mechanisms involved in excitation and inhibition in the peripheral and central portions of the nerve cell membrane." |
| biography: |
Biography |
| laureate facts: |
Facts |
| laureate lecture: |
Lecture |
| given name: |
Andreas |
| family name: |
Huxley |
| occupation: |
physician |
| occupation: |
physicist |
| occupation: |
physiologist |
| occupation: |
neuroscientist |
| field of work: |
physiology |
| work location: |
University College London, UCL Main Building, London, United Kingdom |
| description: |
Andrew Fielding Huxley was a Nobel Prize-winning English physiologist and biophysicist. He was born into the prominent Huxley family. After graduating from Westminster School in Central London, from where he won a scholarship to Trinity College, Cambridge, he joined Alan Lloyd Hodgkin to study nerve impulses. Their eventual discovery of the basis for propagation of nerve impulses (called an action potential) earned them the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1963. They made their discovery from the giant axon of the Atlantic squid. Soon after the outbreak of the Second World War, Huxley was recruited by the British Anti-Aircraft Command and later transferred to the Admiralty. After the war he resumed research at The University of Cambridge, where he developed interference microscopy that would be suitable for studying muscle fibres. In 1952 he was joined by a German physiologist Rolf Niedergerke. Together they discovered in 1954 the mechanism of muscle contraction, popularly called the "sliding filament theory", which is the foundation of our modern understanding of muscle mechanics. In 1960 he became head of the Department of Physiology at University College London. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1955, and President in 1980. The Royal Society awarded him the Copley Medal in 1973 for his collective contributions to the understanding of nerve impulses and muscle contraction. He was conferred a Knight Bachelor by Queen Elizabeth II in 1974, and was appointed to the Order of Merit in 1983. He was a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, until his death. |
| image copyright: |
Photo from the Nobel Foundation archive. |
| image citation: |
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1963. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Media AB 2018. <https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1963/summary/> |
| date birth: |
1917 |
| date death: |
2012 |
| usual name: |
Andrew Huxley |
