Andrew Huxley
Sir Andrew Fielding Huxley was an English physiologist and biophysicist. He was born into the prominent Huxley family. After leaving Westminster School in central London, he went to Trinity College, Cambridge, on a scholarship, after which he joined Alan Hodgkin to study nerve impulses.
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- Born in
- Hampstead
- Educated at
- Trinity CollegeWestminster SchoolImperial College School of MedicineUniversity College School
- Awards
- 🏆 Copley Medal🏆 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine🏆 Order of Merit🏆 Knight Bachelor🏆 Croonian Medal and Lecture
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1917
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