THOMAS H. HUXLEY AND RELIGION AND IMMORTALITY; A LETTER FROM T. LAUDER BRUNTON TO FIELDING H. GARRISON

Thomas H. Huxley and religion and immortality; a letter from T. Lauder Brunton to Fielding H. Garrison.

TiE Victorian era secured for man the revolutionary concepts of geological time and natural selection and may well have been the last epoch in which the world of science was seriously contested by the principles of theology, if not the ethics of religion. Not since the time of Galileo was there a greater need for resolution and compromise between these opposing forces. Thomas Henry Huxley clear...

T. H. Huxley: Man's place in nature

Professor Leone's throw light on the actual scientific problems treated in the passage considered, and as such they are of great help for a reader not closely acquainted with the modern developments of embryology. Dr. Castellani has provided a lengthy introduction which, though occasionally verbose, is of great interest for the student of eighteenth-century embryology. Dr. Castellani, who appro...

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...

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...

H. index and incorrect conduct of research: letter to the editor