Sir Andrew Fielding Huxley shared the 1963 Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine with colleague Alan Lloyd Hodgkin for research which unlocked the secret of excitation and inhibition in nerve cells. Huxley theorized that the movement of sodium ions,...

Andrew Fielding Huxley is an English physiologist whose research on nerve impulse transmission earned him the 1963 Nobel Prize for medicine and physiology, which he shared with his colleague Alan Lloyd Hodgkin and the Australian physiologist John Carew...

1917- English Physiologist Sir Andrew Fielding Huxley received the Nobel Prize in medicine for his work on the chemical properties of nerve and muscle impulses. This work has influenced and furthered research into nerve disorders and brought insight...

Sir Andrew Fielding Huxley, OM, FRS (born 22 November 1917, Hampstead, London [1]) is an English physiologist and biophysicist, who won the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work with Alan Lloyd Hodgkin on the basis of nerve action...

HUXLEY. By Adrian Desmond. Michael Joseph; 475 pages; Pounds 20 HE WAS known as "Darwin's bulldog". A newly converted Paul preaching the gospel of evolution written by the retiring Charles Darwin, Thomas Henry Huxley dashed into the evolutionary dogfight, mauling the clerics...

Widow of Aldous Huxley Laura Huxley, widow of the writer Aldous Huxley, was a frail, small-boned woman: her husband, with his lanky, elastic frame, seemed twice her height. Aldous married Laura in 1956 for, he said, her fragile beauty and darting, kingfisher mind....