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Huxley, Andrew Fielding |
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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 Huxley, Sir Julian Sorell, 1887–1975, English biologist and writer, educated at Oxford; grandson of Thomas Henry Huxley. He taught at the Rice Institute, Houston, Tex. (1912–16), at Oxford (1919–25), and at King's College, London (1925–35). ..... Click the link for more information. and Aldous Huxley Huxley, Aldous Leonard, 1894–1963, English author; grandson of Thomas Henry Huxley . Educated at Eton and Oxford, he traveled widely and during the 1920s lived in Italy. He came to the United States in the 1937 and settled in California. ..... Click the link for more information. . 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. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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