Andrew Fielding Huxley

Sir Andrew Huxley, July 2005

Sir Andrew Fielding Huxley , OM (born November 22, 1917 in Hampstead , London , England , † May 30, 2012 in Grantchester , Cambridgeshire ) was a British biophysicist and physiologist who worked in 1963 with John Carew Eccles and Alan Lloyd Hodgkin for the " Discoveries about the ion mechanism that takes place during excitation and inhibition in the peripheral and central areas of the nerve cell membrane ”was honored with the Nobel Prize for Medicine .

Life

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

Together with Alan Lloyd Hodgkin he developed the Hodgkin-Huxley model , a biologically detailed neuron model that is important for computational neuroscience and neuroinformatics . Together with the Swiss physiologist and membrane researcher Robert Stämpfli , he succeeded in first describing the saltatory excitation propagation on myelinated nerve fibers . The British Crown awarded him the Order of Merit for his achievements . In 1961 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , in 1964 a member of the Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina - National Academy of Sciences , 1975 a member of the American Philosophical Society and 1979 a member of the National Academy of Sciences . The Medical Faculty of Saarland University also awarded him an honorary doctorate in 1964. In 1974 Queen Elizabeth II made him a Knight Bachelor . The University of Cambridge awarded him an honorary doctorate in 1978 .

Huxley was married with one son and five daughters, and last lived in Cambridge.

literature

• Yale E. Goldman, Clara Franzini-Armstrong, Clay M. Armstrong : Andrew Fielding Huxley (1917-2012). In: Nature . Volume 486, No. 7404, 2012, p. 474, doi: 10.1038 / 486474a .
• Andrew F. Huxley , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 41/1992 from September 28, 1992, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
• Renate Wagner: Huxley, Sir Andrew Fielding. In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin and New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 646.
• Andrew F. Huxley: Andrew F. Huxley . In: Larry R. Squire (Ed.): The History of Neuroscience in Autobiography . tape 4 . Elsevier, Amsterdam 2004, ISBN 978-0-12-660246-3 , pp. 282-318 , doi : 10.1016 / S1874-6055 (04) 80020-3 (English, autobiography).

Web links

Commons : Andrew Huxley  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Information from the Nobel Foundation on the 1963 award to Andrew Fielding Huxley
• Christopher L.-H. Huang: Andrew Fielding Huxley (1917-2012) . In: J Physiol. tape 590 , August 1, 2012, p. 3415–3420 , doi : 10.1113 / jphysiol.2012.238923 , PMC 3547259 (free full text) - (English).
• Anthony Tucker: Sir Andrew Huxley obituary . In: The Guardian . May 31, 2012 ( theguardian.com [accessed January 23, 2018]).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Anthony Tucker: Sir Andrew Huxley obituary. In: The Guardian. May 31, 2012
2. ↑ Member entry of Sir Andrew F. Huxley at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on October 12, 2012.
3. ^ Member History: Sir Andrew F. Huxley. American Philosophical Society, accessed December 3, 2018 . 
4. ↑ Honorary doctorates from the Medical Faculty ( Memento of the original from July 11, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Website of Saarland University, accessed on August 29, 2015. 
5. ^ Andrew F. Huxley: Andrew F. Huxley . In: Larry R. Squire (Ed.): The History of Neuroscience in Autobiography . tape 4 . Elsevier, Amsterdam 2004, ISBN 978-0-12-660246-3 , pp. 282-318 , doi : 10.1016 / S1874-6055 (04) 80020-3 (English).