Sir Andrew Fielding Huxley OM. 22 November 1917—30 May 2012

Sir Alan Lloyd Hodgkin OM , KBE , PRS Sir Andrew Fielding Huxley OM

s (Listed in alphabetically order of author’s surname) Kazuyuki Aihara Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo CHAOS AND BIFURCATIONS IN THE HODGKIN-HUXLEY EQUATIONS AND SQUID GIANT AXONS Chaos, or deterministic chaos, is ubiquitous in nonlinear dynamical systems of the real world, including biological systems. Nerve membranes have their own nonlinear dynamics which generate and pr...

Andrew Fielding Huxley 1917 - 2012

Sir Andrew Huxley (1917-2012) pioneered the physiology and biophysics of nerve conduction, skeletal muscle activation and tension generation. His ground-breaking work on nerve excitability of nerve in collaboration with Alan Hodgkin in the Cambridge Physiological Laboratory and the Plymouth Marine Biological Laboratory provided the basis for our understanding of how voltage-gated ion channels g...

Sir Andrew Huxley: 1917–2012

Another recent surprise was the discovery of a phytoplankton bloom under the sea ice of the Arctic during investigations in the north Pacific led by Kevin Arrigo from Stanford University (Science (2012) 336, 1408). This, the authors conclude, could mean that productivity in the icy polar waters may have been underestimated by a factor of up to ten, which underlines that we still know far too li...

Andrew Fielding Huxley (19172012)

Andrew Fielding Huxley, OM 1983; Kt 1974; FRS 1955; PRS 1980–1985, MA, Hon. ScD Cantab. Physiologist and Biophysicist. Born Hampstead, London, 22 November 1917. Demonstrator, 1946–50, Assistant Director of Research, 1951–59, and Reader in Experimental Biophysics, 1959–60, Physiological Laboratory, Cambridge; Director of Studies, Trinity College, Cambridge, 1952–60; Jodrell Professor 1960–69, Ro...

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