Huxley, Andrew Fielding

Huxley, Andrew Fielding, 1917–, British research scientist, educated at University College, London. He finished his studies at Cambridge after doing operational research for the admiralty during World War II. He was director of studies at Trinity College, Cambridge, from 1952 to 1960, when he became professor of physiology at University College, London. He is the half brother of Sir Julian Huxley and Aldous Huxley. He shared the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with A. L. Hodgkin and Sir John Carew Eccles for analysis of the electrical and chemical events in nerve cell discharge.

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