Prof. Andrew Fielding Huxley

1917 - 2012  (94 years)    Has 6 ancestors and 6 descendants in this family tree.

• Name	Andrew Fielding Huxley
  Prefix	Prof.
  Birth	22 Nov 1917	Hampstead, London
  Gender	Male
  Prominent People	1963
  Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
  Death	30 May 2012
  Siblings	1 Sibling
  + 1. David Bruce Huxley,   b. 1915   d. Yes, date unknown + 2. Prof. Andrew Fielding Huxley,   b. 22 Nov 1917, Hampstead, London d. 30 May 2012  (Age 94 years) ▻ Jocelyn Richenda Gammell Pease,  m. 1947
  Person ID	I25652	Geneagraphie
  Links To	This person is also Andrew Huxley at Wikipedia
  Last Modified	28 Sep 2016

  
  

  Father	Leonard Huxley,   b. 11 Dec 1860   d. 2 May 1933 (Age 72 years)
  Mother	Rosalind Bruce   d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F272183	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Jocelyn Richenda Gammell Pease,   b. 1925   d. 2003 (Age 78 years)
  Marriage	1947
  Children	1. Living   2. Living   3. Living   4. Living   5. Living   6. Living
  Family ID	F10784	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	29 Aug 2000

  
  

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  Professor of Physiology at London. 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 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. Huxley was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of London on 17 March 1955 . He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II on 12 November 1974 . Sir Andrew was then appointed to the Order of Merit on 11 November 1983.