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Andrew Huxley

1917 - 2012

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Sir Andrew Fielding Huxley (22 November 1917 – 30 May 2012) 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. Their eventual discovery of the basis for propagation of nerve impulses (called an action potential) earned them the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1963. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Andrew Huxley is the 224th most popular physicist (up from 269th in 2019), the 607th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 746th in 2019) and the 30th most popular British Physicist.

Andrew Huxley is most famous for his work on the structure of the muscle fiber and the organization of the sarcomere.

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Among physicists, Andrew Huxley ranks 224 out of 851. Before him are Robert H. Goddard, Melvin Schwartz, Roy J. Glauber, Ralph Asher Alpher, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, and Michio Kaku. After him are Makoto Kobayashi, Ettore Majorana, Alexander Prokhorov, Frederick Reines, Klaus Fuchs, and Edme Mariotte.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1917, Andrew Huxley ranks 31. Before him are Kenan Evren, Anthony Burgess, Donald Davidson, Sidney Sheldon, Leonid Hurwicz, and Óscar Romero. After him are William Standish Knowles, Otto Günsche, Nur Muhammad Taraki, Barry Nelson, Joan Fontaine, and Kiro Gligorov. Among people deceased in 2012, Andrew Huxley ranks 30. Before him are Princess Ragnhild, Mrs. Lorentzen, Donna Summer, Sylvia Kristel, Griselda Blanco, Larry Hagman, and Gunnar Sønsteby. After him are Hebe Camargo, Carlos Fuentes, William Standish Knowles, Sun Myung Moon, Antonio Tabucchi, and Robin Gibb.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Andrew Huxley ranks 607 out of 8,785. Before him are Tim Curry (1946), Charles Dance (1946), Ronald Coase (1910), Philip Sclater (1829), John E. Walker (1941), and John Collier (1850). After him are Peter Gabriel (1950), Jonathan Pryce (1947), David II of Scotland (1324), Edwin of Northumbria (586), John Flamsteed (1646), and Fred Hoyle (1915).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United Kingdom

Among physicists born in United Kingdom, Andrew Huxley ranks 30. Before him are Peter Higgs (1929), Roger Penrose (1931), Henry Moseley (1887), John Kendrew (1917), James Jeans (1877), and David Brewster (1781). After him are John Cockcroft (1897), William Shockley (1910), C. P. Snow (1905), Osborne Reynolds (1842), Anthony James Leggett (1938), and Daniel Rutherford (1749).

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