Huxley, Andrew Fielding

Huxley, Andrew Fielding, 1917–, British research scientist, educated at University College, London. He finished his studies at Cambridge after doing operational research for the admiralty during World War II. He was director of studies at Trinity College, Cambridge, from 1952 to 1960, when he became professor of physiology at University College, London. He is the half brother of Sir Julian Huxley and Aldous Huxley. He shared the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with A. L. Hodgkin and Sir John Carew Eccles for analysis of the electrical and chemical events in nerve cell discharge.

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Huxley, Andrew Fielding 

Born Nov. 22, 1917, in London. English physiologist. Fellow of the Royal Society of London (1955).

Huxley graduated from Cambridge University in 1938. From 1941 to 1960 he taught at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was also director of studies from 1952 to 1960. Since 1960 he has been a professor in the physiology section of University College in London. He created (1957) the theory of muscle contraction, described the fine structure of myofibriis, and discovered the interaction and separation during contraction of actin and myosin filaments that form the myofibril. He has investigated the synapses of the nerve fibers and the physicochemical changes during transmission of the nerve impulse, as well as the ionic mechanisms of excitation and inhibition in the nervous system.

Huxley was awarded a Nobel Prize in 1963, together with A. L. Hodgkin and J. C. Eccles.

WORKS

“Muscle Structure and Theories of Contraction.” Progress in Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry, 1957, vol. 7. pp, 255–318.
“Measurement of Current Voltage Relations in the Membrane of the Giant Axon of Loligo.” (With A. Hodgkin and B. Katz.) Journal of Physiology, 1952, vol. 116, no. 4.

A. S. BATUEV