biography
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Huxley, Sir Andrew Fielding
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1917– )
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| biography:
| Physiologist, born in London, UK, a grandson of T H Huxley, and half-brother of Aldous and Julian Huxley. He studied at Cambridge, then taught there in the department of physiology (1941–60). He helped to provide a physico-chemical explanation for nerve transmission, and outlined a theory of muscular contraction. He was professor of physiology at London (1960–9) and a Royal Society Research Professor (1969–83). He shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1963, and was knighted in 1974. |
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