1917– English physiologist and biophysicist who made fundamental discoveries about the basic mechanisms of the nervous system, and how muscle fibres contract.
Keywords: electrophysiology; hodgkin; action potential; muscle fibre
Huxley, Andrew Fielding
EM Tansey, Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London, UK
Published online: April 2001
DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0002438
| Further Reading | |
| Huxley AF (1971) The activation of striated muscle and its mechanical response. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 178: 1–27. | |
| book Huxley AF (1977) Looking back on muscle. The Pursuit of Nature: informal essays on the history of physiology, pp. 23–64. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. | |
| Huxley AF (1984) Grandfather and grandson. Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London 38: 147–151. | |
| book Hodgkin AL (1977) Chance and design in electro-physiology: an informal account of certain experiments on nerve carried out between 1934 and 1952. The Pursuit of Nature: informal essays on the history of physiology, pp. 1–27. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. | |
| book Weismann S (1990) "Sir Andrew Fielding Huxley". In: Fox DM, Meldrum M and Rezak I (eds) Nobel Laureates in Medicine or Physiology: a Biographical Dictionary, pp. 284–288. New York: Garland. | |
