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Two neuroscientists made some ground-breaking discoveries that would not have been possible without the help of a few molluscs It may seem unlikely that a squid could be a major contributor to our knowledge of the human nervous system today. But two neuroscientists, Alan Hodgkin (1914–1998) and Andrew Huxley (1917–2012), made some ground-breaking discoveries, thanks to the mollusc. ...
Having entered Cambridge in 1935, Huxley graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1938. In 1939, Alan Lloyd Hodgkin returned from the USA to take up a fellowship at Trinity College, and Huxley became one of his postgraduate students. Hodgkin was interested in the transmission of electrical signals along nerve fibres. ...
Huxley was born in Hampstead, London, England, on 22 November 1917. He was the youngest son of the writer and editor Leonard Huxley by Leonard Huxley's second wife Rosalind Bruce, and hence half-brother of the writer Aldous Huxley and fellow biologist Julian Huxley, and grandson of the biologist T. H. Huxley. ...
Sir Andrew Fielding Huxley was born in Hampstead, London,(22 November 1917 – 30 May 2012) was a Nobel Prize-winning English physiologist and biophysicistHe was born into the prominent Huxley family. After graduating from Westminster School in Central London, from where he won a scholarship to Trinity College, Cambridge, he joined Alan Lloyd Hodgkin to study nerve impulses ...
Awards[edit] Huxley, Alan Hodgkin and John Eccles jointly won the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for their discoveries concerning the ionic mechanisms involved in excitation and inhibition in the peripheral and central portions of the nerve cell membrane". Huxley and Hodgkin won the prize for experimental and mathematical work on the process of nerve action potentials, the electrical ...
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