Andrew Huxley

Andrew Fielding Huxley, OM ( born November 22, 1917 in Hampstead, London, England; † 30, 2012 in Grantchester, Cambridgeshire ) was a British biophysicist and physiologist, in 1963 with John Carew Eccles, and Alan Lloyd Hodgkin on the "discoveries concerning the ionic mechanism that takes place at the excitation and inhibition in the peripheral and central portions of the nerve cell membrane " was honored with the Nobel prize for Medicine.

Life

Andrew Huxley was a son of Leonard Huxley and his second wife Rosalind Bruce. He is the grandson of Thomas Henry Huxley biologists and agnostic and half-brother of the biologist and humanist Julian Huxley and the writer Aldous Huxley.

Along with Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, he developed the Hodgkin -Huxley model, a biologically detailed neuron model, which is significant for computational neuroscience and neuro computer science. Together with the Swiss physiologist and researcher Robert membrane Stämpfli he succeeded the first description of the salutatory propagation in myelinated nerve fibers. For his achievements he was awarded the British crown the Order of Merit. In addition, he was in 1964 to a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina - elected National Academy of Sciences. The University of Cambridge awarded him an honorary doctorate in 1978.

Huxley was married and had six children, one son and five daughters.

Writings

• The fantastic life of plants.